Every year The Literary Review of London gives it’s award for Bad Sex in Fiction. Now these are not erotic airport novels to be flipped through and then forgotten, these are serious novelists who are trying to write good fiction. And it’s The Literary Review, for heaven’s sake. Well, I don’t know who they are, but they sound impressive, don’t they? And they had Courtney Love giving out the awards. No only does she have the right last name, there’s something that makes me think that woman can easily identify bad sex because to look at her you just know she’s had plenty of it.
At any rate they give out annual awards in the hope of discouraging authors and publishers from including unconvincing, embarrassing, or redundant passages about the sex act in what would otherwise be a sound literary novel. Does it work? Well, apparently not since The Literary Review has been giving out the award for fourteen years and authors keep writing stuff like this:
Slither slither slither slither went the tongue, but the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns - oh God, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest - no, the hand was cupping her entire right - Now! She must say ‘No, Hoyt’ and talk to him like a dog…
Oh baby baby I am so turned on. Doesn’t that get you hot and make you want to jump into bed? Not doing it for you? Try this then:
She is so small and so compact, and yet she has all the necessary features… Shall I
compare thee to a Sony Walkman, thou are more compact and more. She is his own Toshiba, his dinky little JVC, his sweet Aiwa. Aiwa - She says, as he enters her slimy red-peppers-in-olive-oil cunt - Aiwa, aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwa aiwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.
These are from serious novels folks. The kind that have rich and famous authors and who get invited to speak in front of lots of people and meet the Queen. But if they are writing about sex is based on their experience, I think we’d all be best advised to stay out of their classroom.
I you’re interested in more you can read the winning passages from this year’s nominations, or the writing that created the first place winners from previous years.
OR….for something really funny, check out this video with two girls singing about really bad orgasm sex with a boyfriend. Bet one of them slept with the guy who won this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award…
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