![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sex scenes in literary fiction are often designed to highlight the risibility of living inside a flesh prison (as compared with the lofty and un-embodied life of the mind), and one major litmag invented an entire award whose explicit purpose was to shame authors out of ever writing sex scenes at all. It’s all abjection and solipsism and mortification and derision it’s all ableism and sizeism and misogyny and discrimination. In fairness to my younger self, the tenor of the sex scenes historically allowable by the literary establishment is grim, my friends. I’d been bamboozled by a mindset, common among English majors, wherein fictional sex and any non-contemptuous perspective on embodiment were well beneath the notice of the serious reader. Sex scenes were a major barrier to entry when I was first getting into romance novels. ![]()
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