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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
There's a difference between romance (where sexy times or the build up to them are the point of the story) and some other genre story that has elements (these books remind me of the old Spicy pulps).
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Exactly. Sex in a romance novel or gore in a Living Dead film isn't gratuitous, although one might argue that the novel and films themselves are gratuitous (NB: I wouldn't aruge that about the films). A sex scene in a mystery or thriller or fantasy story is not necessarily gratuitous, but writing in sex scenes just to have them is. And it is, in my opinion, a strike against the author, the editor, the publisher, or some combination of the three.