Best Literary Sex Scenes Not Penned By A Great Male Novelist

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Writing about sex in literature is a difficult task; there are so many ways authors can go wrong. Nowadays, most writers spend too much time on the build up and then release the curtain during the show, choosing instead to segue to a point immediately after the act. Others spend an inordinate amount of energy coming up with penis euphemisms, and end up ruining a scene (think: late John Updike), or even a whole novel.

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[cherieamour]

06:15 PM on 02/15/2011

...the Skye O' Malley books by Bertrice Small were great when i was younger...

[Cailleach Echo]

10:19 AM on 02/12/2011

Lady Chatterley's Lover

As a very young teen, I had read certain passages so often that my paperback copy fell open to those pages.

[Kevin Wheeler]

03:58 PM on 02/11/2011

one word: "Glamorama..."

[smp65]

09:13 AM on 02/11/2011

The novel ' Dive From Clausen's Pier' had some eroctic and dremy sex scenes.

[Woods-shade]

09:23 PM on 02/10/2011

In the "Bodice Rippers" (as we used to call the Historical Romance Fiction at the library) being atop a hilly crag with lightning flashing to reveal heaving bosoms was usually a requirement.

[beckola]

10:05 AM on 02/11/2011

I loved those books! GREAT description by you of the scene that set the mood.

I also loved Gothic novels Victoria Holt was still quite intriguing for this 13-year-old girl in 1978. Ah, those days of innocence.

[Woods-shade]

11:02 AM on 02/11/2011

*smiles* I would get steamy just putting these books back on the racks. Seriously, you would not believe the "proper & prim looking" women that would check them out. A stack of eight to twelve a month usually. Like a box of Red Hots. : )))

[Susan Shaffer]

08:31 PM on 02/10/2011

i have heard some good stories from friends. maybe i should pen to paper.....or fingertips to keys

[Sue Langland]

06:42 PM on 02/10/2011

"I pulled her down the alleyway and pushed her toward the wall....holding her by her hair, gasped, 'I have to have you.' She slipped her skirt up, was naked underneath, and in a second I was inside her. 'I know,I know, she whispered..."---from Damage by Josephine Hart, a short, but highly charged and erotic novel wherein Miss Hart writes the novel in a male first person narrative that seems as psychologically apt as it is well written.