Re: Re: A first for me

Mary E Tyler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
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On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:18 AM, auwg wrote:

> --- In [email protected], Kirk McElhearn <kirkmc@...>  
> wrote:
>> But the point someone else made is valid: if the sex is simply  
>> gratuitous, then do you really need it? If you want to sell erotic  
>> books, that's one thing, but too many books have gratuitous sex  
>> that don't need to be there for the story or for the character  
>> development.
>
> Nope. Not gratuitous. One thing leads to another, etc...
> I've seen storylines that chop the continuity at such scenes, and  
> sometimes it's very jarring. Takes you right out of the reading  
> experience like a pothole on the freeway.
> Better to treat the sex lightly and scoot through it than to  
> truncate developments abruptly.
> Ed

It never ceases to amaze me why people are so against sex...

dej

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