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I find about 95% of sex scenes in otherwise good thrillers (my preferred genre) to detract from the reading. They simply don't belong. Just because a car chase or whatever is improbable doesn't mean you can throw in something else improbable in the context and assume it will fly.
Of course, people have sex all the time (and a good thing, too), but they do a boatload of other things as well that aren't in the book. i am convinced of two things:
1.Most readers don't share my bias and like the romantic interest and the culminating sex scene.
2.most authors do what most readers want.
So I accept it and enjoy the rest of the book. And I don't insert such scenes into my thrillers - the closest I've come is to show the immediate post-coital scene in a bizarre turn of events where bizarre is what I was going for.
All that said, when sex scene is done well, I actually prefer it more explicit, or at least very emotive. Unless the writing style is like a Jack Higgins or Stuart Woods that lends itself to it, simply referring to the fact that it occurred and moving on is no better than throwing the full scene in there IMO. My complaints are not about the scene, they are about the fact that the sex occurred at all in the context of the plot.
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