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Originally Posted by Ea
I read the first four books when I was 18-19(? - thereabout), and I honestly can't remember there were that much sex in them or that it was all that explicit  And given my age I think I ought to have remembered...  |
It was seriously explicit, at least once Ayla and Jondalar began with each other. There were a lot of euphenisms, like pink petals for labia. But every detail was described. Endlessly. Enough that I started skimming the sex scenes because they became just as tiresome as the long descriptions of chipping an adze from flint.
The first book didn't have any explicit sex, because it was all the Clan men giving the signal. It was probably hard to inject anything romantic into a cave girl squatting on command. No foreplay. No post-coital cuddling. And Ayla hasn't yet invented the cigarette.
-Marcy