Sugar In My Bowl: When Serious Women Write About Sex

salon.com:

As soon as I cracked opened Erica Jong's new anthology, "Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex," I was overcome with giddiness.

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Comments

[Ariel Bonzai]

07:52 PM on 06/12/2011

Sex and Serious are used in ambiguous fashion, so I am not surprised we are denied access! Semantic bullish** I knew immediately what she meant, and let's be honest, we do not write with candour about faking it, having hard ons for men and women. We don't confess to slipping Viagra into fun boys coffee and let his insensitive pair of heads live without us by making a mad dash for cigarettes we will never return with. We do not talk about daddy in depth, the power of our beauty or how we come to hate it for betraying us. We don't talk about not wanting it,self-pleasure, or the men we allow to defile us. Our narratives tend to be single minded, shrill, or new age hog wash.
You want to read women who write about sex with unflinching candour and amusing audacity?

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[CVales]

02:42 PM on 06/09/2011

Well, I believe the article explores how difficult it is to write love scenes in fiction and otherwise without being perceived as a romance novelist-of the bodice ripper variety. I, for one write and do not want that type of impression. In the article, some female writers describe some of the early sexual experiences in essay form. MY guess is that it's not meant to titillate, but to explore ideas around sexuality. Why not? Sexuality is such a large part of who we are.

[moonflowerjewelry]

08:18 PM on 06/08/2011

I'm only commenting on the title, simply because it struck me as funny. There is NO shortage of widely read female authors writing about sex... bodice rippers always have at least two detailed, I mean REALLY detailed scenes of soft-core porn (only soft core because there aren't pictures). These writers are certainly taken **very seriously** by their bankers and the publishing house executives who make buckets of ducats off their labor.
So, if you are standing in a grocery store checkout line and some bluehaired republican female is getting all huffy about Weiner's weiner, don't be fooled... She belongs to the #1 pornography consuming demographic in America. They don't call those books bestsellers for nothing.

[healthanalyst]

02:08 AM on 06/12/2011

Well, lay on your back, spread your legs and think of England works for the Brits....

[thebigbike]

02:50 PM on 06/08/2011

well, since I couldn't open the article I can only guess. Is the thesis of the article that women writing about sex is not being taken seriously by men? which begs the question" is it only being taken seriously then if its by men? and being taken seriously by women is not "being taken seriously"?