A thought or two.

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

While discussing the idea of sex in novels with a friend of mine, I (of course) brought up LKH and her...um...lack of skills in that particular area. My friend said that it's extremely difficult to write sex--descriptive or not--and that she feels "awkward" while reading sex scenes. I (again) chimed in about Anita Blake--about how not only did I feel awkward, I also felt pretty damn squicked out.

We've all lamented over the boring, repetitive, gross sex. My question is, have you ever--in any novel that's ever been written--seen a decent, titillating, enthralling sex scene?

The more and more I think about it, the more I realize that I haven't seen one that's left me breathless and panting. I know that I'm much more of a slash girl than anything, but isn't that what they're supposed to do?

(It's much more fun laughing about bad sex scenes than it is hunting for good ones, I'll tell you that.)

Thoughts, dear lashers?

Comments

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

The hottest thing I have ever read remains the scene in which Lestat turned David in The Tale of the Body Thief. I have no idea what that says about me.

That said, FitzChivalry's first time in the FarSeer series was lovely, although I don't know if that counts as a sex scene since it was more of a... an ode

Neil Gaiman had a couple of excellent ones in American Gods -- I remember one involving a Muslim cabbie that I liked better than the whole rest of the book. (Interestingly enough, Mercedes Lackey's het scenes don't suck. ^__^)

The Fall of the Kings was phenomenal on the sexxin' score. And I remember Kate Elliot handling a couple of scenes really well, although her "Crown of Stars" series has stretched out so durn long I've forgotten which book contained what.

As far as romance authors, for me Laura Kinsale wins hands down. Which is, of course, not fair, since she's pretty much the only romance author I can stomach at all at the moment.

I kind of adore Douglas Adams's take on the matter, though, which went something like:

"Oh, ah!" she began.
"Ooooooo," he countered.
"Eeeeeeeeee," she disagreed.
"Oh, ah, oh?" he queried.
"Ah, ah, ah!" she informed him.

Except, you know, it's Douglas Adams, so it's far funnier. No idea what happened to my copy of that book.

[cheeky-duckie.livejournal.com]

I remember one involving a Muslim cabbie that I liked better than the whole rest of the book. It was surprising! I was reading along, curled up in the bathtub, and all of a sudden there was sneak-attack-genie-sex! It was a really well done scene, though. So, uh, seconded.

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

Don't forget American Gods also has that one sex scene featuring a literal Crotch of Doom. *grins*