Yes, and it's always good to play with perceptions, such as:

Farmer Ben's cock stood proudly to attention as he approached the chicken house...

JB

Pity the poor hens.

If I'm thinking of the right scene in 'Taking Comfort' it was excellent.

Bearing in mind the love of my life's first gift to me was a frying pan, I would relate to it.

'Seventeen years' and he still gets to cook the bacon and eggs...

Mollusc - that has sparked a train of thought(!)

Sarah

The trouble with writing sex scenes is that it's highly subjective. You write something you think is subtle and erotic and someone else says it smacks of Mills & Boon. Write something sweatily realistic and someone else thinks its pornography. Write something deliberately ironic and someone else thinks that its Anais Nin.

Sex scenes rival comedy in being all about opinion - one man's meat is another man's poison, as it were...

I'm not sure who this quote is from but perhaps it's something we could all bear in mind when writing -

eroticism is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.



or if you're Farmer Ben, it's one heck of a Friday night

Thanks Sarah! I was thinking of the Sloggi midi brief chapter. With the onions frying.

That's the one!

Sarah

Apologies Roger. I have still to get round to obtaining a copy of Taking Comfort but will do shortly.

JB

JB, don't be daft. There's no need to apologise. You're not obliged to get it or read it! But if you fancied doing the latter, without doing the former, don't forget the local library option.

Roger.

No, I want to read the book on its reputation and merits, and I will buy it as I want to support my fellow WWrders in all their efforts. Library schmibary!

JB

As my novel includes scenes where the main character visits a prostitute, this is something close to my heart! I used humour and wild rhetoic to overcome the "disgusting normality" of the sex! Your reader should perhaps laugh or be outraged at some peculiar perversion or other.

My novel is littered with sex scenes and a problem that I have is making them all sufficiently different from each other - there's passionate sex, tender sex, bad sex and sexual violence. It's tough getting it right with each one

there's passionate sex, tender sex, bad sex and sexual violence

And all in one night, eh, Nin?

JB

well no one can ever accuse me of me having a

boring

life...

lol wax

Heaven forbid!

JB