Book Club on Sidechat | Hate when critical examinations of sex from a cultural/physical/psychological/sociological lens are dismissed as baseless smut when it’s one of the most biologically engrained instincts in civil society and invites rich narratives dissecting it.

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Hate when critical examinations of sex from a cultural/physical/psychological/sociological lens are dismissed as baseless smut when it’s one of the most biologically engrained instincts in civil society and invites rich narratives dissecting it.

Anonymous 4w

Like. Yes, in order to have thematic exploration of sex from any narrative point of view, you’re likely going to need to depict sex in whatever way serves your point. But too many people dismiss any form of subtext because they consider the topic to only serve one purpose (that is, to elicit/encourage lustful thoughts). We can’t talk about sex in any nuanced way in any form of media (or regularly in life for that matter) because people are so quick to shut those conversations down

Anonymous 4w

You’ve said everything I’ve thought with more eloquence than I ever could

Anonymous 4w

That is so sharply observed. Can you recommend such books

Anonymous

OP 4w

And it sucks because there’s so many examples of AMAZING stories doing exactly that.

Anonymous

#2 4w

I’d say House of Leaves sticks out as a prime example. The main character, J ohnny Truant, is INCREDIBLY hypersexual/allosexual and describes his multiple sexual encounters in the most oversharing-in-the-dude’s-locker-room uncomfortable way possible. And SO many people literally skip over his sections in the narrative because they assume it’s just baseless and distracting from the other parts of the story when it is SUCH A RICH EXPLORATION into what informs his trauma & his horrors he undergoes