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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
I was on one board where the reviewer was talking about how much he loved the book, how well written it was, and how he was going to give it two stars because of a two page sex scene. He doesn't like explicit sex in his books. More power to him and all, but it'd be a good plan to let guys like that know the book is going to turn them off.
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I respectfully disagree. I think that was very unprofessional of that reviewer. I'm fairly sure that no one would have understood or forgiven his reasoning if it had been a detailed description of a soccer game that led to the low grade. I don't like reading about soccer games in my books, so I can give two stars to what I thought was a 5-star novel until I came across that two-page soccer game scene?
Of course not. That would be ridiculous.
Two little pages should not have that much power over the final grade, particularly not if he liked the rest of the book as much as he claimed to.
But it is a beautiful illustration of that double standard that we all, myself included, apply to explicit sex in writing.