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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't want to read explicit sex scenes in any book. I'm not a prude - I just find such things distasteful.
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Then the fact that the book happened to show
gay characters in that way shouldn't be the deciding factor, should it?
Any list of writers who depicted gay sex in their work would have to include James Baldwin (
Giovanni's Room), Jeanette Winterson, Edmund White, Rita Mae Brown, John Rechy, Juan Goytisolo, Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Dorothy Allison, W.H. Auden (posthumously), Patricia Highsmith (
The Price of Salt), Gore Vidal, Dennis Cooper and innumerable others.