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Originally Posted by crich70
I'm not sure they write books that are more violent etc. so much as we notice them more due to the fact that the author is female. I mean back during the Golden Age of Sci Fi for example it was assumed that both author and reader were more likely to be male and so the odd author of Sci Fi who was in fact female (like Leigh Brackett) tended to stand out I think. And probably the same thing is happening now with the violent or gory books. We expect violence and gore from a male writer like Stephen King for example (and yes I know he doesn't write crime fiction) and don't think anything of it, but a female author is different. We still have the double standard in terms of literature I think. We expect women to write more in the romance genre or chick lit than in violent crime fiction. Just my opinion of course.
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Try reading a couple of those mentioned in that article and see if your opinion doesn't change. They are over the top violent and the sexual violence to beyond the depth that most male writers approach. I was familiar with a couple of them, and out of curiosity downloaded a couple more yesterday. The article is correct, gratuitous can applied to the sexual content and violence all of them. If you were to edit out most of the more explicit text, you would not have something that sold on story content alone.