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Old 04-01-2011, 08:01 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by sircastor View Post
When it comes to sex scenes in fiction, I prefer it to be clear cut. Implied sex is one thing, because it's usually only there to progress the story for some purpose. Explicit sex tends not to be an issue because I don't usually read the books where I find it. My biggest beef is when I find an explicit sex scene in a book that does nothing for it, ala The Time Traveler's Wife or Cory Doctorow's Makers. It just sits in there as if the publisher grabbed a generic erotic lit. piece, plugged in the names and inserted it in the book.
I loved the sex in Makers; it made the stories more plausible to me. I could see them as real relationships that changed over time; it helped me understand the characters because I could relate them to some of my own experiences.

I wouldn't have brought it up in this thread because, from my perspective, it dovetailed so seamlessly with the rest of the story that I have to be reminded that there were sex scenes in Makers.
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