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

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

I think that my problem is that, regardless of how open I might be about my own sex life, reading a sex scene between other people - however fictional - just unnerves me. Like I'm observing something really private. I'm the same way with huge emotional scenes in movies, too.

Laughing at bad sex scenes isn't just fun, it's a way of life!

[anniesong.livejournal.com]

I think you just described how reading LKHs novels has felt like for me lately. It's not just that I roll my eyes so much that I get a headache, but also the sense of invading a privacy as well.

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

I think because LKH blogs so much about her personal life we feel like voyeurs. I don't feel the same way when I read a sex scene by (say for example) JR Ward. But then again she doesn't blog about her life for everyone to read.

Here's a weird thing. I wrote a story that was published in an anthology. It was an erotic horror anthology and definitely NOT for children. The opening scene of my story was a bondage scene that resulting in the murder of the submissive. I meant it to be borderline porn and wrote it accordingly, because I wanted the shock value. I must have had 15 people I know reasonably well ask me about my (non existent) sex life after the story came out. So I guess some people really don't separate between the author's imagination and reality.

(For the record-I've never been killed during a bondage scene gone bad.)