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View Poll Results: Do you like sex/love scenes in the stories you read? | |||
No nookie for me. I don't want to go there. |
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36 | 12.29% |
Love scenes are fine if they contribute to characterization and plot. |
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165 | 56.31% |
I really enjoy sexuality in fiction. |
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46 | 15.70% |
Some sex is OK but only in small doses. |
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38 | 12.97% |
Love scenes are why I read! |
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8 | 2.73% |
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It's not the sex, it's how it fits in the rest of the book.
I've liked authors who deal with sex in the most oblique manners (eg anita brookner) and I've like authors who deal with it in rather explicit language (eg Lionel shriver). What I don't care for is the obligatory romance/sex (eg the jack reacher novels -- ok, he's getting some. Whew. Now get on with the program) |
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I pretty much only read historical fiction, and for me, the only problems are:
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Depends on the book (or my expectations of it), and the sex scenes.
The blurb of Gail Carriger's Soulless led me to expect a mystery with a side of romance. What I got was a rather thin mystery plot to hang heavy petting and sex on. Reasons why I didn't like that include: I don't buy into the idea that two people bickering all the time means they are meant for each other; mutual biting is creepy when one of the partners has supernatural healing, but the other doesn't; the phrase "he impaled himself" used for penetration... With Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife books, I knew that I was heading into a romance, and while there were certain squick factors (e.g. age gap) in the relationship, it was affectionate and involved mutual trust, rather than standoffishness, before the sex started. I also got the impression that sex scenes themselves gave more space to the characters' reactions rather than mechanics. |
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Although no hardcore please, because there are better sources for the real taste. Then again, who would call it Fantasy or Sci-Fi if it were hardcore? Spoiler:
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I'm thinking the OP is probably a man, since sex scenes and love scenes are talked about as if they are one and the same. Not necessarily, ya know!
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![]() What I do know (from personal experience) is that after just one short ride on horseback your trousers can end up all hairy - from the outside... ![]() |
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Of the horse actually...
The hair on my legs doesn't grow on the outside of my trousers. And I never groom it... ![]() Right you are ! Quote:
I think you can have sex without love and love without sex (though much harder, but it exists, it's called platonic love), and if you have both it's like bicycle riding or eating food - something that's fun to do by yourself or with anyone else or in a group, but most fun with someone you love. ![]() ![]() Anyway, the OP is definitely a woman, says so in the profile. And the OP never said sex and love were the same, she just asked what people thought about books which contain EITHER of them. Last edited by Enkidu of Abydos; 04-01-2011 at 10:30 AM. |
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Come to think of it, those are also great locations for public mass orgies, you should organize some MobileRead volunteers... Like promoteing reading through public nudity and orgies... ![]() Last edited by Enkidu of Abydos; 04-01-2011 at 10:12 AM. |
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Alan Furst has some great sex in his World War 2 thrillers. He's pretty good about discussing it in his interviews, too.
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You either haven't learned yet that going the way is the fun and not sitting at its end - or you got lost everytime and never arrived. I'd get kind of disappointed if I'd meet a woman which 'd say "don't mind about multiple O's - I'll just place that woodpecker on my skull" Quote:
1.) there's far more than "mention" about intercourse and relationships between quaddies and humans. 2.) Miles not only "does it" - Miles and Taura have a long-term affair running. The next time you read the series I'd propose you wipe the screen more frequently, so you might see more text and less whitespace. |
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