So I think I've finally articulated something about language in audios I've been thinking about for ages, and I can't tell if this is incredibly subtle, or blindingly obvious, or maybe both. I'd love y'alls help thinking about it more, and also it gives me a way of asking a question I've struggled with.

So broadly speaking I think you can divide lines in an audio into two categories. One, that I'll call "speech", is something purely descriptive/narrative - it just lets us know what's going on. It's "here, let me take my top off", or "let me get down on my knees...". If this were visual porn, these lines would be omitted because they wouldn't be necessary. This is the connective tissue that holds together the meat of the script.

Then there's another kind that I'm gonna call speech-act (which I think isn't quite what that term actually means in linguistics but just go with it) - this is where what matters isn't just what the words tell us, but the fact that it was said out loud. This can be a lot of different things - in a friends-to-lovers audio, say, it might be the nervous confession of feelings. It matters because it's not just the VA telling letting us know that this character loves the listener - it's because by speaking it aloud, the character is changing the world they exist in; they're opening up a possibility that wasn't there before, and setting the plot in action. What's enjoyable is the act of speech itself, not just the content of that speech.

Another example: it's the difference between ending a blowjob with the speech-act "Cum <wherever>" and then some sounds, vs sounds and then the speech "You came <wherever>!". The second one is purely descriptive - it's just telling us what happened, and any pleasure we derive is from knowing the thing happened. The first one, though, is doing something - it changes what's about to happen, it exerts the speaker's will on the situation - what's hot isn't that he's going to cum wherever, it's that she asked him to. (And for my money, that's why the first one is MUCH hotter).

Note, too, this is where it gets fuzzy and where performance matters a lot: the second one could become more speech-act-y depending on tone. Is she shocked? Delighted? Outraged? A strong emotion there again has us enjoying the fact that she said it, not the contents of the words themselves.

THEN, there's also a loooot of grey area. "Here, come into the bedroom" - on the one hand, it's just speech, telling us they're moving into the bedroom. On the OTHER hand - what's the context? Is it weird/exciting/concerning for them to go to the bedroom?

And I'd say a lot of during-sex actions are kinda either/both. Things like "yeah just like that" or "oh god harder" - I'd argue these are moooostly just speech, with maybe a little speech-act insofar as they tell us something about what the speaker wants or is enjoying or whatever. But if you have minutes upon minutes of just that kind of speech - I'd argue if can feel like nothing much is "happening", because nothing is changing.

Tl;dr: do we care about *what they said\, *or about** *the fact that they said it?\* Imo if we care about the latter, it's better audio.

So two questions:

1. What am I missing? How else might we think about this? Have I drawn the lines in the right place, or is there a better categorization to be made? Are there other interesting angles to this? Basically: discuss!
2. What are your favorite speech-acts for during the actual action? This is where I struggle the most in script writing! I find that the build-up is choc full of speech-acts, but once they're actually fuckin', I run out of meaningful things to say, and whatever I write feels boring.