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richard-godwin's picture
Mar.14.2012
Philip Larkin wrote in "Annus Mirabilis" Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP. Up to then there'd only been A sort of bargaining, A wrangle for the ring, A shame that started at sixteen...
brian-wyllie's picture
Mar.14.2012
I have no trouble at all picking my favorite sex scene from a novel. It is from the chapter on Barbados in the novel "The Long Trip Home." A gorgeous female, who has stripped naked to take a swim, returns to her partner for the day. She walks slowly up the tropical beach and kneels in the sand...
gabriel-constans's picture
Mar.14.2012
I have been entranced with the novel Ebba and the Green Dresses of Olivia Gomez in a Time of Conflict and War by Joan Tewkesbury since it was released last year. The story is a literary wonderland of love, hate, darkness and hope and is steeped in the spices and flavors of Latin American magic...
jitu-rajgor's picture
Mar.14.2012
   The scene is from my favorite author Alberto Moravia's novel 'The lie' in English or 'La'Attenzion' in Italian. I like it because of the frankness of author to accept the weakness of ill moments as it is,however transient or illusory it may be. Besides I like the long,paragraph sized...
joni-rodgers's picture
Mar.14.2012
My new novel THE HURRICANE LOVER involves a deadly game of cat and mouse that spins out of control during the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane season of 2005. A con artist uses the collapsed infrastructure as cover for identity theft and murder, and she lures her victims through a website that...
red-room-well-red's picture
Mar.13.2012
Author Spider Robinson wrote that, while “everybody disagrees with everybody” about what constitutes a good sex scene, most agree that it “should be believable, consensual (all parties consenting), (and) a natural development of the story rather than a pasted-on attention-getter.”* This week, we'd...
farzana-versey's picture
Jan.31.2012
I was much amused by Red Room's note saying that one should "keep it clean". I see it as unintended humour, or perhaps a health advisory! This post was written in January. I am adding it to the week's topic only to watch it swim among the pool of perspectives on the subject, although it is a broad...