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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Adding "a sex scene" to a story isn't likely to sell more. Sex must be significant in a product to activate higher sales action.
The books I re-edited, and replaced fade-to-next-scenes with sex scenes didn't have significantly higher sales either. That's because it was one or two scenes in a book, and didn't significantly change the content or story. But it didn't detract from it, either.
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I could write a book that has great writing and the blackout style sex scenes, and it will be a best seller. I could take the same book and put them in, and even find a way for them to impact the plot, and it would not impact sales any more then any other plot device would.
Some people by PORN for PORN sake, same with erotica. Does that genre sell? Sure does... but thats targeting an audience that wants to buy that. If thats your traget, then YES having good sex scenes will impact sales, but other wise, I hold that it does not.
My point is that people will read a book that is written well, marketed well and has a good story. Thats what sells books, not lack of or addition of sex.
Thats my opinion on it, and I think if you check the best selling books over the years you will see there is no correlation to the amount of sex and their ranking.
