Bumper year for the Bad Sex in Fiction awards

When literary authors have to describe their characters having sex they are often taken by surprise, says John Purcell, bestselling Australian writer of erotic fiction.

"It is as though these writers wake up and become fully conscious when a sex scene needs to be written," Purcell says. "Then, they over-write and over-think something which just doesn't work like that in fiction or in life."

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Purcell's personal favourite is from The City of Devi by Manil Suri in which the author compares the experience of orgasm to a supernova: "The hut vanishes, and with it the sea and the sands - only Karun's body, locked with mine, remains. We streak like superheroes past suns and solar systems, we dive through shoals of quarks and atomic nuclei. In celebration of our breakthrough fourth star, statisticians the world over rejoice."

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Some foreplay is just too purplish, like Rupert Thompson's Secrecy, which includes this passage: "Mauve and yellow flowers filled the blank screen of my eyelids, the petals loosening and drifting downwards on to smooth grey stone. I kissed the soft bristles in the hollow of her armpit."


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