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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Or it could make you more sensitive to the fact that gay people have to read/see/converse about the explicit details of heterosexual sex lives on a regular basis. Getting a taste of that yourself should make you more understanding of the alienation and revulsion experienced by people whose tastes are different from yours when they're saturated with material about it.
One of my writing teachers was not only gay but wrote about it explicitly. In reading and savoring his novels and short stories, I was never disgusted, repelled or incensed. I merely had the feeling, while reading the sex scenes, of observing the mating habits of a creature who was different from myself. The descriptions seemed clinical, but only because I'm not the target audience (for a change). As I said, the writing was excellent and I've never regretted reading him -- or the stories of other gay writers who wrote about their sexuality -- for a moment.
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I don't want to read explicit sex scenes in any book. I'm not a prude - I just find such things distasteful.