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13151649 No.13151649 [Reply] [Original]

Why do so many modern writers feel the need to put an explicit sex scene in every single book they write? Do they think it makes their books more mature, or that it makes the characters deeper and more human? Are they unable to properly convey romance and passion any other way so they have to resort to throwing a porn scene in the middle of an otherwise good book? I'm getting so fed up with this shit that I'm considering just not reading anything written in the past 50 years, or at least sci-fi/fantasy books since they're the worst offenders when it comes to this.

>> No.13151772

Sex is part of being human.

>> No.13151782

>>13151649
Stop watching anime.

>> No.13151892

>>13151772
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with characters having sex, I'm talking about graphic sex scenes, which almost never serve any purpose. It makes the book seem like it was written by a horny teenager.

>> No.13151908

>>13151892
In my mind, it always comes off as weird to see prudeness when describing sex, like describing it as "making love" or something, it comes off as overly brief like they want the implication but none of the filth
Reading sex in action is a very thin line to not make cringe, I think a lot of the "good sex" in fiction comes from the intimacy(or lack) of the characters, even if it's a scene of just impersonal and uncaring fucking

>> No.13151987

>>13151772
So is literally everything else that humans do. So much of what humanity entails is left out of every book.

>> No.13152018

Same for movies and I agree with your view.

>> No.13152029

>>13151649
>Are they unable to properly convey romance
DING DING.

>> No.13152040

My favorite "sex part" in any book is probably the chapter in Tropic of Cancer about the two prostitutes.

>> No.13152286

>>13151649
>I'm considering just not reading anything written in the past 50 years, or at least sci-fi/fantasy books

You shouldn't anyway

>> No.13152326

>>13152040
tropic of cancer is incredibly based