Top 10: good sex in fiction

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10 Werke 38,551 Bücher 1,021 Rezensionen ½ 3.7
Good sex is, of course, subjective. Good sex in literature even more so. What can make one person cringe can make another, well, never mind. I’ve often wondered how the literary novelists get mehr anzeigen genuine intimacy on to the page. What alchemy goes into conjuring a tender coming-of-age experience or a wildly passionate, perhaps even distasteful, moment?

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So how do the masters of the highbrow write such powerful, erotic sex scenes? I’ve put together an eclectic list of some old friends and recent reads to show how incredibly varied good sex in fiction can be.

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2023

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