Hmm. It may be that we are hampered by different things here, because the more I think about it, the more the "emotional high stakes and complexity of the relationship"-combination makes sense to me as my impediment in writing sex.

I had a similar smutblock (though to a lesser extent) with Fraser/Kowalski in Due South, and their relationship was actually pretty straightforward.

That's interesting! Hmmm, I think I could have written sex for Fraser/Kowalski without problems, if I had written that pairing at all. To me, the only possible issue there seems to be Fraser's reserve and protective facade of asexuality (but I don't think he is actually asexual, and it would have been fun to show him being completely uninhibited and just doing whatever feels good with no hang-ups whatsoever).

OTOH, I did have a little bit of the same issue with Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr in X-Men First Class - and there it also had to do with the complexity of the characters and their relationship, *and* the high emotional stakes that sex is bound to have to the characters.

But the extent that the Guardian guys are smutblocking me is really a first for me. :-) Still, I will get them there eventually! I am determined. ;-)