Re: Writing sex scenes...

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as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declared:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Bacon) wrote:
> 
>> Chris Dollin wrote:
>> >> IOW, I would avoid sexual explicitness unless you have a very 
>> > specific
>> >> *need* for it. I don't see any need here.
>> >
>> >And as another datapoint, I see no specific need to *avoid* it. 
>> >Why shouldn't we write what we mean, and mean what we write?
>> 
>> You can write whatever the hell you want. If you expect people to read 
>> it and
>> like it, you have to take other people into consideration.
> 
> But since, fortunately, there are books out there to every taste, the 
> reader doesn't have to pitch a hissy fit if every one of them doesn't 
> censor sexual description . . . 

Hmm. All I can say is, Justin better not buy a copy of "Iron Sunrise". 
There's something in it that's not a million miles away from rape, told
in explicit detail, for reasons absolutely vital and intrinsic to the 
plot. (Never mind the friendly consensual sex.)

Incidentally, am I the only person here who finds it a lot harder and
more demanding to write *bad* sex than happy-fun-good sex?


-- Charlie