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Leo cried out something when he came, and I wanted to cry out too, so bitterly was I disappointed at being left behind.īrief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace is so full of brilliant, multidimensional renderings of sexual feeling that it’s hard to choose just one scene. I hadn’t any sense of wanting him to finish: I’d reached and pushed against him to feel more. His warm slide in and out felt not like the intrusion it had always been with Brian, but like something that was already part of me. And when he had pushed into me on the mattress, I was wet, though I hadn’t known I would be. I felt as though my pelvic bones got heavier, shifted somehow.
When we had danced and I lost myself-in him, in the music, in the shapes on the wall-I was also intensely aware of myself physically. This is a far more interesting-and believable-depiction of the awakening of heterosexual female lust than, say, having your first orgasm when a man plays with your nipples (as happens to Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey).įor Anna, having pleasurable sex is not the magical result of good chemistry, but the logical result of wanting her own pleasure and eventually communicating her desires to her partner. But with Leo, Anna feels “left behind” when Leo comes, longing to experience the same pleasure he does. Rather than swooning or feeling helpless and breathless in Leo’s presence, Anna feels that her “pelvic bones got heavier, shifted somehow.” And the first time they have sex, Anna does not experience multi-orgasmic fireworks, but a more realistic longing for the sex to last longer, to “feel more.” With her ex-husband Brian and her prior lovers-starting with groping adolescent boys-Anna has always been passive, accepting male advances as “intrusions” to be endured, wanting the man to finish so the sex would end. But the form Anna’s new passion takes is far from cliché or fantastic.
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This would seem to be a familiar storyline: frigid female set free by confident, sexy hunk. In The Good Mother by Sue Miller, a recently divorced woman meets a man who awakens her sexual longing for the first time. Rather than inviting you to gape at purely physical contortions, these scenes make the reader feel the acts described as bodily, emotional experiences that inform each character’s unique sense of what it means to be alive. What follows is a collection of credible, affecting sex scenes by writers who are celebrated not for their illicit content, but for their uncommonly precise prose and insightful observations of human nature. Rather, many great novels portray sexual encounters as an inseparable part of the extraordinary ordinariness of daily life. But often the best writing about sex can be found in books that are not about sex at all.
This version has a toggle to enable/disable NSFW content.When most of us think of writing about sex, our minds turn to classic authors of explicit fornication (The Marquis de Sade, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Erica Jong) or to contemporary erotic bestsellers ( Fifty Shades of Grey, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Wetlands). (A SFW version of this game is available here. Or just maybe the two of them might be exactly what the other needs and their story could end in happiness. Lizzie might lose control and ruin her chances or become obsessed with shadowy conspiracies that may or may not exist. John might reject Lizzie, succumb to his depression, or die violently. Your every choice will impact both characters' mental states, changing their fate. Lizzie is willing to murder everyone in school if she believes it would make him happy.
John is willing to risk his safety for a chance to help Lizzie gain some mental stability. But when John sees her, he sees someone else suffering from a mental condition. Though Lizzie appears affectionate and devoted, it quickly becomes clear that she's so violent and unstable that a normal boy would run away from her. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. John is a young man suffering from severe depression.