“I wonder why murder is considered less immoral than fornication in literature.” – George Moore

“Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that’s what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.” – Anatole Broyard

“Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.” – Anthony Burgess

“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.” – Gore Vidal

“If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it – whatever it is they’re doing – it hasn’t been written right.” – Sloan Wilson

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.