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The Bad Sex in Fiction Awards (SFW)

MicroMicro Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Social Entropy++
So, being the liberal elitist that I am, I read the Guardian (a British paper that, (stereotypically) only teachers and social workers read). I was scanning one of their articles, and came across the 'Bad Sex in Fiction' award, which basically ridicules the writers who have absolutely no clue how to write about, shall we say, the more intimate aspects of personal relations.

I started looking back through past winners, and came across this absolute beauty from Giles Coren, winner in 2005, who is the Food Critic for 'The Times', another British paper:
And he came hard in her mouth and his dick jumped around and rattled on her teeth and he blacked out and she took his dick out of her mouth and lifted herself from his face and whipped the pillow away and he gasped and glugged at the air, and he came again so hard that his dick wrenched out of her hand and a shot of it hit him straight in the eye and stung like nothing he'd ever had in there, and he yelled with the pain, but the yell could have been anything, and as she grabbed at his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath, she scratched his back deeply with the nails of both hands and he shot three more times, in thick stripes on her chest.

Like Zorro.

An absolute masterpiece in my opinion.

The long list from 2005 can be found here

Anyone else found any especially bad sex in fiction? I don't mean the retards on literotica, I mean people that are actually taking themselves seriously and consider their output to be 'art'.

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Like Zorro.

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    MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Sword of Truth/Wheel of Time

    what ho!

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It's the 'Like Zorro' but that kills me - and the fact that the previous paragraph is just one big sentence.

    It makes me happy.

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Literotica is never funny when you're looking to make fun of it.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm not sure anyone was trying to make fun of Literotica.

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    XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The Guardian is pretty great.
    They actually like videogames.

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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That Fanfiction I wrote where Orik does PI was pretty hot.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Six commas.

    One full stop.

    Completely sexy.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Richard Morgan.

    Say what you will about his novels, his sex scenes are a fucking embarrassment cribbed straight from bargain-basement porno.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Xagarath wrote: »
    The Guardian is pretty great.
    They actually like videogames.


    That's actually true - the only British Daily I can think of that actually devotes a decent amount of paper to gaming (in one of the Saturday supplements IIRC).

    They also never jump on the 'oh my God you're killing our children with your murder simulators' bandwagon.

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    Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    and and and and and

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    SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    That was brilliant. Referring to an ejaculating penis as both Zorro and an upturned shower-head is pure genius.

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    The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    He uses words the way Mozart used water-colours.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm pretty certain Giles Coren has never actually had sex and that's basically just an compendium of all his favourite downloaded clips all queued up in Windows Media Player.

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    Shifty FisterShifty Fister Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Haha that was pretty goddamn amazing.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm pretty certain Giles Coren has never actually had sex and that's basically just an compendium of all his favourite downloaded clips all queued up in Windows Media Player.

    That is unfortunately almost certainly true.

    He writes SO well about food though.

    Some of the other entrants from subsequent years have also been great - will try to find some of the best.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Coren also wrote this a couple of weekends back to the sub-editors at the paper, it got leaked. He is simply marvellous:
    Chaps,

    I am mightily pissed off. I have addressed this to Owen, Amanda and Ben because I don't know who i am supposed to be pissed off with (i'm assuming owen, but i filed to amanda and ben so it's only fair), and also to Tony, who wasn't here - if he had been I'm guessing it wouldn't have happened.

    I don't really like people tinkering with my copy for the sake of tinkering. I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do. Owen, we discussed your turning three of my long sentences into six short ones in a single piece, and how that wasn't going to happen anymore, so I'm really hoping it wasn't you that fucked up my review on saturday.

    It was the final sentence. Final sentences are very, very important. A piece builds to them, they are the little jingle that the reader takes with him into the weekend.

    I wrote: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for a nosh."
    it appeared as: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for nosh."

    There is no length issue. This is someone thinking "I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate pcunt and i know best".

    Well, you fucking don't.

    This was shit, shit sub-editing for three reasons.

    1) 'Nosh', as I'm sure you fluent Yiddish speakers know, is a noun formed from a bastardisation of the German 'naschen'. It is a verb, and can be construed into two distinct nouns. One, 'nosh', means simply 'food'. You have decided that this is what i meant and removed the 'a'. I am insulted enough that you think you have a better ear for English than me. But a better ear for Yiddish? I doubt it. Because the other noun, 'nosh' means "a session of eating" - in this sense you might think of its dual valency as being similar to that of 'scoff'. you can go for a scoff. or you can buy some scoff. the sentence you left me with is shit, and is not what i meant. Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn't mean? I don't know, but you risk doing it every time you change something. And the way you avoid this kind of fuck up is by not changing a word of my copy without asking me, okay? it's easy. Not. A. Word. Ever.

    2) I will now explain why your error is even more shit than it looks. You see, i was making a joke. I do that sometimes. I have set up the street as "sexually-charged". I have described the shenanigans across the road at G.A.Y.. I have used the word 'gaily' as a gentle nudge. And "looking for a nosh" has a secondary meaning of looking for a blowjob. Not specifically gay, for this is soho, and there are plenty of girls there who take money for noshing boys. "looking for nosh" does not have that ambiguity. the joke is gone. I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you've fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it. You might as well have removed the whole paragraph. I mean, fucking christ, don't you read the copy?

    3) And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you're winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can't you hear? Can't you hear that it is wrong? It's not fucking rocket science. It's fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable. Wankers. Fucking, fucking, cunts.

    I am sorry if this looks petty (last time i mailed a Times sub about the change of a single word i got in all sorts of trouble) but i care deeply about my work and i hate to have it fucked up by shit subbing.

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    OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Richard Morgan.

    Say what you will about his novels, his sex scenes are a fucking embarrassment cribbed straight from bargain-basement porno.

    i know! it's like he found 'CUM SLUTS 49' and copied the scene word for word into his novels

    also, i love the bad sex awards and am pleased someone else made the thread before me

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    I fucking hate restaurant critics.

    Especially the gay ones.

    You writing a review of an eatery, not fucking epic poetry. Get over yourself, you like to eat, and you write like a pretentious fuck with no friends, that's the sum total of your marketable skills.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Richard Morgan.

    Say what you will about his novels, his sex scenes are a fucking embarrassment cribbed straight from bargain-basement porno.

    i know! it's like he found 'CUM SLUTS 49' and copied the scene word for word into his novels

    also, i love the bad sex awards and am pleased someone else made the thread before me

    It's like like - ok, romantic scene on the pier...and, oh, right, now it's suddenly hardcore sex on the pier using specific sex slang such as for example dirty sanchez.

    The scene I'm thinking of didn't actually mention dirty sanchez but it was something like that where I would've had to have actually looked up the term on the internet to understand what manner of sexually debased acts were being performed.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I fucking hate restaurant critics.

    Especially the gay ones.

    You writing a review of an eatery, not fucking epic poetry. Get over yourself, you like to eat, and you write like a pretentious fuck with no friends, that's the sum total of your marketable skills.

    Yes he gets a bit prissy - but you've got to love him for the sheer level of vitriol aimed at his editors over a single, one-letter word.

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Micro wrote: »
    I fucking hate restaurant critics.

    Especially the gay ones.

    You writing a review of an eatery, not fucking epic poetry. Get over yourself, you like to eat, and you write like a pretentious fuck with no friends, that's the sum total of your marketable skills.

    Yes he gets a bit prissy - but you've got to love him for the sheer level of vitriol aimed at his editors over a single, one-letter word.

    The thing is, he is completely right, for reason number 3 if for no others. Ending on an unstressed syllable is unconsciously significant.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Of course he is, but not everyone would go to the trouble to get worked up about it.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Shorty wrote: »
    Micro wrote: »
    I fucking hate restaurant critics.

    Especially the gay ones.

    You writing a review of an eatery, not fucking epic poetry. Get over yourself, you like to eat, and you write like a pretentious fuck with no friends, that's the sum total of your marketable skills.

    Yes he gets a bit prissy - but you've got to love him for the sheer level of vitriol aimed at his editors over a single, one-letter word.

    The thing is, he is completely right, for reason number 3 if for no others. Ending on an unstressed syllable is unconsciously significant.

    But it's a restaurant review. Hence, frankly, it doesn't fucking matter.

    Food critics, to a man, believe their work is significantly more important than it actually is. Because their work isn't important at all.

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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    what's wrong with the story in the OP

    i do the zorro thing sometimes

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It matters in the Times.

    EVERYTHING matters in the times.

    Seriously, some people still buy the Times just to read the 'Court Circular'
    Today the Queen will be breakfasting at home, and lunching with the Royal Society.

    Prince Charles will be patiently waiting for his mother to die.

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    KarlKarl Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Micro wrote: »
    It matters in the Times.

    EVERYTHING matters in the times.

    Seriously, some people still buy the Times just to read the 'Court Circular'
    Today the Queen will be breakfasting at home, and lunching with the Royal Society.

    Prince Charles will be patiently waiting for his mother to die.


    Its still better then the Guardian, you liberal tree hugging pansy.








    I'm joking, you're alright. You're not a Daily Mail reader.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ah, Maidenhead, the poor man's Reading.

    Berkshire is, truly, the home of the Gods.

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    KarlKarl Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Micro wrote: »
    Ah, Maidenhead, the poor man's Reading.

    Berkshire is, truly, the home of the Gods.

    I'll think you find that Maidenhead is more like an up market version of Slough.

    Innit.

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    XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Karl wrote: »

    I'm joking, you're alright. You're not a Daily Mail reader.

    We need to kill and gut the Daily Mail, and leave strips of it hanging from trees all along the road.
    As a warning.

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    MicroMicro Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Karl, that much is true.

    I'm actually from a village near Bracknell - so I'm even lower-class than you.

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    Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I found Cum Sluts 49 to be a collasal dissapointment, but I went into it with admiteddely high expectations.

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    Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Well damn, it appears that Firefox no longer corrects my spelling errors for me.

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    autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    There is this book series about living spaceships, al capone coming back from the dead and the dead conquering the galaxy
    It has the most awfully awful sex scenes ever, like written by a 14 year old

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I read the guardian because it has the best small sized version of the major papers to read on the tube. plus a modern design.

    also, their comments and debate section is like page 20 whereas in the times it is right there page 3. I dont like commend and debate. i just want the fucking news.

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    There is this book series about living spaceships, al capone coming back from the dead and the dead conquering the galaxy
    It has the most awfully awful sex scenes ever, like written by a 14 year old

    "oooh" she murmered as his penis was put in her vagina, making wet noises

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    There is this book series about living spaceships, al capone coming back from the dead and the dead conquering the galaxy
    It has the most awfully awful sex scenes ever, like written by a 14 year old

    "oooh" she murmered as his penis was put in her vagina, making wet noises

    That'd be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night%27s_Dawn_Trilogy I guess. I sorta like his ideas for the future, but yeah, the sex scenes are annoying. (It gets better/worse in other books too, where there is this faction that believes cloning yourself and then sharing consciousness is the bestest idea ever, and one girl "dates"one of these "multiples". oooooooh yeaaaaaaah.

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    HoA-playerHoA-player Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    Sword of Truth/Wheel of Time

    what ho!

    I can't remember any really bad scenes in Wheel of Time. Whenever anyone does have sex it just cuts to the next scene without any graphic describtion.

    Now A Song of Ice and Fire ...

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Man, a sex scene in the WoT series must last like 8 books, with at least 400 pages describing the penis becoming erect.

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    NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    England thread

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