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Originally Posted by hal2814
Any activity not "justified and intrinsic to the plot" is by definition gratuitous.
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True, that. But it seems to me that sex scenes are held to a higher standard than just about anything else, in this regard. It often seems to me that some people will only
endure a sex scene in a book not categorized as romance/erotica when there is no other way for the author to tell what he needs to tell (and often not even then). I.e. a sex scene, even if it is important to the story being told, is still considered gratuitous when the thing said sex scene accomplishes could also be accomplished some other, more
acceptable way.
I call puritan bullshit on that one.