Sex in literature (WAS Fanfiction and sex... slash vs. het)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> 
The discomfort isn't restricted to fan fiction, either - I can barely
tolerate Jean Auel's novels because she increasingly loads them up
with repetitive sex scenes between Ayla and Jondalar (or someone who
is making Jondalar boring and insecure). She's a fine writer, though,
with interesting extrapolations of archaeological theory.
> Just as a lot of fanfiction writers turn out material of
professional quality -- Lori and Barb being two whom I have read.
(Although I'm more familiar with Lori's X-Men stuff, I'll admit.) Good
ear for voice, dialogue, much smoother plotting than I can manage at
this stage.  But as with Auel's stories, whenever I get to the sex
scenes, my eyes do that compulive roll and glaze. Unaccountably, I squick.

Aha, I thought that was a popular consensus on EC books.  Glad to see
a fellow reader out there!  While the books carry a lot of substance
to the story, the sex scenes DO become more and more frequent, while
in case becoming less and less "plot-vital".  Yeah, we get the point
that he's madly in love with her gorgeous body & she can't help but
fall for his "impossibly blue eyes", but when sexually explicit scenes
become simply fluff, I find myself skimming over them.  I think sex in
literature is tolerable (personally) so long as it has a point, a
foundation in the base story, but I really don't like to read it just
to hear the details of their acts for the one-billionth time.

Just my thoughts.

-Megan (wondering if there are possibly any more ways to describe
Jondular's "manhood" and if their passion will become significantly
less now that they're actually living with his people--but this isn't
an EC message board, so I digress ;-))