Music & Mayhem said:
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Dialogue can be very sexy. What characters are thinking about each other can be very sexy. Anatomy lessons, not so much.
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Nails it. The anatomy lessons and the overlong descriptions of who did what to whom and how do get old, and the description that evokes a response of "Cool!" from one reader will evoke a response of "Yecchh!" from another. Unless the plot turns on such a scene, what's the point?
As for dialogue being sexy: Your mileage may vary here (in which case you can probably think of other examples on your own) but check out the 1951 science fiction classic THE THING, and pay attention to the banter between Kenneth Tobey and Margaret Sheridan.
The rest of the dialogue in that picture hasn't gathered any dust in nearly sixty years either.
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Tony Rabig
The Other Iron River
Acts of Faith
Ghost Writer