I know it's 40,000 stories too late to really do it, but what we should have instead of
No sex, . . . Stroke is:
1) Story without sex
2) Story with sex
3) [ ]
4) Story about sex
5) Sex without story.
A story with sex is like the "J. D. Robb" stories. Eve Dallas gets called to a murder site, finds it is a serial killer, and solves the case. In the course of this, she has sex with her husband three times.
Longarm stories are another example. He catches the rustler, and fucks the woman.
The novels in either series would work -- if not sell so well -- without the sex scenes.
I may have been a little hard on category 5. There uually is a plot in stroke stories; it's just that the plots are usually so paste-board that the sex scenes are the only thing attractive about the stories.
A story, though, can be as original, believable, and intriguing as any other and still be *about* sex. It doesn't have to be, "Will she or won't she?"
And they don't have to be explicit. My _Afterwards_ recounts a conversation that a couple has right after intercourse. It is *about* sex.
I would call category 3 _inter alia_, except that people keep complaining that my vocabulary isn't primary enough. "Inter alia" is one of those Latin phrases that appear in most English dictionaries. It means "among others" or "among other things." I mean it for stories that are about sex among other things.
My Brennan story _Forks_ is about sex, but it's also about how you get things done when you're sick but not on your death bed, whether you need a full place setting for every meal, what is the question behind the question asked, being mad at your spouse but still quite clear that you are going to remain married, and other issues.
(2,154 words.)