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    debbyherbenick: Her comments also seem to suggest that there is only one way to write about sex and that is "steamy", whereas sex is highly nuancedd... with at least ... more »
    clevernamehere: I'm kind of shocked that she thinks men write better sex stories than women do, I think the exact opposite is true. When I was in high school and coll... more »
    Maulleigh: Shirley Conran, who wrote Lace, faked it pretty good. Those were some of my earliest secret readings! I found the book at a garage sale and only read ... more »
    BlackFrancine: A classmate of mine gave a presentation on Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, a book that has a lot of unromanticized sex in it. Part of her pre... more »
    PennyArcadia: "Determined not to let the magazine be "drowned in estrogen," she said she would have almost exclusively male writers as they knew a lot more about se... more »
    Ipomoea: Good lady sex writers? Kristina Lloyd Anais Nin Emma Holly Susie Bright and everything she edits Lora Leigh (I don't generally like her men, but the s... more »
    SomeAuthorGirl: Huh. She doesn't want it "drowned in estrogen?" I read that as she doesn't want to be "drowned in sales." more »
    Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: Aha! Here are the authors who've won the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Only 2/16 are women. John Updike got a 'lifetime achievement awar... more »
    bowleserised: It pisses me off that all of the so-called saviours of the post-Pelling Erotic Review have sought to relaunch it by trying to slag off Rowan. On whose... more »
    Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: Oh no. She. Didn'. If women can't write about sex, then what's with them writing (and jerking it to) 99 percent of online fan fiction? Sure, much of i... more »
    morninggloria: I'm mainly bummed out by the word "erotic" since I was in a philosophy class in college called "Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love" wherein the professor ... more »
    Ailatan: I've just finished reading Fear of Flying and I loved it! The "all women suck but me" is just a stupid strategy that some women use to get to men, it ... more »
    sympathyforthebasementcat: Ladies, I say we leave this Jezebel pretense, and go to out for some salads and how to snag a man talk. I promise we won't mention the s-e-x word, exc... more »
    Zombie Ms. Skittles: HEY! I used to run a sex blog with a feminist bent (we sadly went under after I quit my job, had finals week, moved across the country, registered for... more »
    Pocahaunted: I salivate rivers at the thought of a great steak (perhaps a mark of a recently converted vegan) and also think that The Erotic Review was the greates... more »
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    "Women Can't Write About Sex," Says Female Sex Writer

    In an Ann Coulter-worthy bit of self-undermining, sex writer and new owner of Britain's Erotic Review Kate Copstick says women don't know how to write about sex. More »