Thread: Do you like sex/love scenes in the stories you read?
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Old 04-01-2011, 11:31 AM   #61
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner View Post

With Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife books, I knew that I was heading into a romance, and while there were certain squick factors (e.g. age gap) in the relationship, it was affectionate and involved mutual trust, rather than standoffishness, before the sex started. I also got the impression that sex scenes themselves gave more space to the characters' reactions rather than mechanics.
Bujold's actually written an interesting essay on Writing Sex.
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