Episode 3 of Smutty Storytelling: Reading the Good, The Bad, and The Sexy

Is this the most awful sex writing 2017 can offer? Erotica writers and editors Betina and T.C. do a close reading of excerpts from The Literary Review’s “Bad Sex in Fiction Award”, featuring: bizarre word choice! Awful details! Strained metaphors! Painful dialogue! “Erotic” scenes that beg for psychoanalysis! 
And, most shocking of all…several pieces of sex writing that we really, really liked! 
But why don’t you listen and judge for yourself?

You can listen to the podcast on Soundcloud and iTunes.

If you want to read along with the excerpts, here are the articles we read from for the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards 2016 and the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards 2017 shortlist.

Tragically, The Toast’s page of Male Novelist jokes seems to be down, but happily someone on Tumblr has quoted the particular joke I reference in this podcast:

Q: How many male novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: He lit a cigarette. His glass of whiskey lit a cigarette too.

This was a REALLY FUN podcast to do–in fact, reading sexy writing aloud (even if it’s not what you’d call sexy sexy writing) was unexpectedly enjoyable. And I mean what I say about wanting to check several of these titles out.

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