I'm planning to write a story featuring a young white Australian couple who move to Singapore after the husband's firm posts him there. While they're there, the husband and wife decide to enact a long cherished mutual fantasy by allowing his wife to receive an erotic massage from a local male masseur. Things go as planned and the wife and her new lover develop a powerful chemistry. The husband is more than willing to relinquish his monopoly on his wife and step into the background so that his wife's fun with the Singaporean masseur is not interrupted. Now, at this point, I want to continue the story in such a way that the Aussie couple begs the masseur to impregnate the wife. They both desperately want children but the hubby is sterile. Accordingly, he sees an opportunity to let his wife get impregnated by her lover, thus allowing her to fulfill her wish of someday having her own biological child. Do you think that this additional element will be too extreme for most readers to stomach? Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Hi there, it sounds like you have the story quite well planned out.
I would suggest that you concentrate on the three of them in the story and how the relationship takes off (with maybe a small mention of the desire for children) and then write a second part where you tackle the impregnation subject. It feels like they could easily be two separate stories...
As Mazza mentioned, I would definitely establish the dynamic of the couple before they go the masseur. Earlier in the story, you could use the move to Singapore to mention how there is hope that the wife will be able to immerse herself in a new culture and explore a new city and have something to focus on, thus hopefully taking her mind off their infertility issues and her longing to have a child of her own etc. You could even mention that they'd been trying IVF in Australia etc without success and the couple was hoping the move would be a fresh start for their marriage, away from the stresses of trying to conceive.
I think this would help the reader understand and empathize with the husband's decision later on during the sex scene.
Thanks for the advice, everyone. I really appreciate the helpful feedback and suggestions. So based on the responses that my thread has elicited so far, I think I'll divide the story into the three chapters, with each being a fully developed story by itself. The first will pertain to the existing relationship between the husband and wife, as well as the obstacles that they've encountered in trying to have a child, while the third will detail the husband's motivation for deciding to allow the masseur to impregnate the child. In your opinion, will the tripartite division enable the readers to understand the decision making processes motivating the central protagonists? Again, thanks