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

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

This is a play/movie, not a book,but I'm going to have to recommend Bent by Martin Sherman. The weird thing is, there's no actual sex, it's all talk and imagination, but the way it's handled- well, you can watch it here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HccQhITRXQk). (NSWF, despite the lack of actual sex)

As far as written sex scenes are concerned, I generally prefer scenes that talk about what the characters are feeling as opposed to "He put his X in her Y."; I find it less crude. With that in mind, the dream!sex scenes in A Great And Terrible Beauty are pretty good, as are Juliet Marillier's (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Wolfskin, and Foxmask) and Elizabeth Hand's (Waking the Moon, Mortal Love

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

OMG! Thanks for the link!