Bad Sex Writing

Who Won The Bad Sex In Literary Writing For Fiction?

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Author Rowan Somerville won literature's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Prize Monday for the use of unsettling insect imagery in his...

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Russell Smith: The most erotic organ is not the brain

The Globe and Mail | Russell Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Everyone has sex, just as everyone eats, yet we talk all the time about what we eat. To talk at work about last night's sex would be like talking abou...

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How Not To Write About Sex

themillions.com | Sonya Chung | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been said (possibly by Elvis Costello, though the attribution is murky) that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." The same ...

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