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One of the things that big box bookstore in Jacksonville had was a "human sexuality" section that was filled with nothing but erotica, despite being far from the fiction and embedded deep in the self-help.

As if that wasn't strange enough, only one book in the entire shelf was turned to face the eye cover-on, and it was gay erotica! I picked it up and used one of my superpowers (when I open a book, if it has a sex scene, it will always open to that page), which was trivial in this case.

They were pretty decent sex scenes until, after skimming the fourth or fifth one, I noticed a pattern-- they were all porn scripts. When told from the bottom's point of view, there was never any question that it was absolutely wonderful. The author has never bitten a pillow in his life.

But the most damning thing was that every sex scene ended with the top pulling out and coming (excuse me, "cumming") on his partner. In a book, the author doesn't need a "money shot" to explain to the audience that the main character had gotten off on (and in) his partner. But this book had them, with single-character third-person omniscient point of view! Every single one of them. They followed the porn pattern of interest, suck, fuck.

I can't tell if this was regarded as a necessity of the genre in the author's eyes (I wish I'd written it down, the cover did not look like what Amazon offers up when I type in the title), or if this was a lame excuse for not using condoms in the era of safer sex, but if I was going to read porn, I was not going to be subjected to that kind of absurdity.

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Date: 2011-08-18 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urox.livejournal.com
Mine is that any fiction podcast my husband listens to where I am not present (his commute to work, errands, whatever without me), the instant that I am riding in the car with him and he puts it on to play, it will suddenly be the one and only sex scene in the entire podcast.

Date: 2011-08-19 12:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com
"every sex scene ended with the top pulling out and coming (excuse me, "cumming") on his partner."

What a waste of food!

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