Quote by Just_A_Guy_You_Know
If you've got a limited attention span, jettison all backstory, character development, plot, etc. Just get straight to hardcore explicit fucking
That's true. It's just the same in porn. Some people watch the whole movie/video, some skip to the parts that they like. And I believe we shouldn't sacrifice the backstory of the characters to appeal more to the latter. They will skip anyway to the parts that they want to see, however minute the backstory is. could be 1000 words long, or only 100.
Everybody can write a sex scene, but to make someone care about a character and their motives is a work of art, that shouldn't be sacrificed to people who don't want to read it anyway.
When I read an erotic story for the first time, I read every single word of it. I want to know what they think, feel, and what they have been through. And if it's a great piece I often find myself coming back to the same story. Only then do I skip some parts of the backstory, as I already know and care about the characters.
But if it doesn't contain any or only a little backstory, I don't find myself coming back to the story and more often than not, don't bother to finish reading it.