Favourite sex scenes from books.

[justlookingin]

So there are a few threads about sex scenes in mainstream movies but what about in mainstream literature? I think I probably first came across sex scenes in schlocker espionage thrillers as a teenager. I can't remember any of the titles but the scenes I can.

I flicked through copies of The French lieutenants woman and Lady Chatterly's Lover just for the naughty bits. More recently Michael Houllbeq's Platform and Atomised have scenes that never fail to get me aroused. In Platform the main couple go on holiday and on getting to their room she takes off her clothes, leaving on her panties, and straddles his face. A maid discovers them and they invite her to join them. Delicious. Anybody else enjoy those or got any favourite books/scenes they care to share?

[Helen46]

One "mainstream" novel that I remember for its eroticism is D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel, published in 1981. It's an odd book involving lots of dreamlike sequences, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, and the Holocaust. Much of it is incoherent and, as a reader, one frequently feels lost. However, there are some exceptionally steamy scenes, particularly one involving a young couple and a mature woman. In any case it has lived long in the memory; perhaps I should try and fish out a copy and check out what I found so arousing all those years ago.

[StaciRay79]

Anne Rice has some good stuff in her Sleeping Beauty series

[twister947]

Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille, although that would require the term "mainstream" to be pretty plastic.

[LeopardPrint]

When Lady Chatterly is taken from behind

[Ryno2010]

Stuart Woods has a vivid imagination in his writings. And believe it or not Stephen King !!

[greystardust]

chatterly yes, but i must say whilst i found her exciting, and the manner inwhich she let her lover take her, admirable, i found his character unappealing sexually.

ayn rand's atlas shrugged delved into a similar debauchery, though made moral and acceptable through her gifted oratory...esp when her lover woould take her that way

anna karenina, inwhich (i forget exactly when, where) after the heroic soldier challenges in a race or game of sorts...he introduces her (or others) to a night of russian...?passion (too many years ago) - memory says orgy of sorts...but at the behest of the officers

now commencing bovary...

but for sheer lust and pleasure - even boxing way above her weight...anne rice's beauty wins out

[jodylee]

Diana Gabaldon and her outlander series has excellent erotic writing.. Her sex scenes between Jamie and Claire (the main characters) are superb.. Lots of variety, including gay and occasionally non-consent. She can write a sex scene (or its precursor) so well, with none of the usual wordings you might find in erotica. Big fan, so I'm biased, but lovely intense writing. They are filming a tv series for Starz channel too!

[doowdniw]

When Sonny Corleone fucks the bridesmaid in The Godfather.