My stance in the Sex/Murder debate is that it depends on the particular author’s style and whether or not they can pull it off. If the writer can blend it in seamlessly with the rest of their story and it comes across as natural and not forced, sex/murder scenes can be great for adding a bit of excitement into a story.
I actually went and looked up the sex scene in The Godfather book and I thought it was a bit too graphic for my liking—so authors have to keep in mind who their audience is. I know The Godfather probably wasn’t written for teenagers, it’s probably more like adult fiction.
One sex scene that I thought was really well done was the sex scene in the book Memoirs of a Geisha. It came off as really funny (to me at least), and this made sense when considering that the narrator was a young girl then, and that we are seeing it through her eyes. She likened the event to a rat and rolls of fabric, and it was just a really ridiculous metaphor, so ridiculous it was funny. The author definitely intended it to be funny, so employing the exaggerated metaphor was very effective.
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