I too don't read that much fiction although I think I should read more of it. I used to read Jackie Collins back in the 80's. I didn't real all her books though and they really wouldn't interest me today. I read Extreme by Sharron Osbourne a couple of years ago and was afraid it would be filled with sex antics but she was very classy in the book and there were none. I'm not a fan of Ozzy Osbourne's music but loved their MTV reality show. The book was interesting. Had a lot of shady details about the music industry also. I guess I can do with sex scenes in books but find them unnecessary and really don't add anything.
I don't mind sex scenes in books or movies when they are essential to the plot, or when they serve to move the story along. Too often though, particularly with movies (since I haven't read very many books with sex scenes), it's as if they wrote the script to the movie and then went through to see where they could add the obligatory sex scenes. I fast forward through them more often than not, and I would do pretty much the same thing in a book. I skim sections that don't seem necessary to carry the story forward.
Ha @Chrissy Page, I'm glad Frank quoted your post, because I totally misread it the first time. I thought you'd said you DID enjoy watching them with your kids, which gave me pause because it didn't sound like you, but to each his or her own . @Ken Anderson That's the thing, it seems unnecessary to me. I think many of the writers of the books I'm reading (low cost and/or free, mainly) are probably writing via some sort of formula where they're trying to appeal to a certain audience, and that's not me. The gratuitous sex scenes aren't the only parts that have turned me off, but they seem to take up more space than the parts that detail the type of car the character drives and all of the amenities it has, or the extensive detailing about other things in the books. I don't need to be told every little thing. I prefer to use my imagination. I agree about the movies and TV shows, as well. Ha ha @Shirley Martin.
I am with @Diane Lane on this one. It irritates me that when I'm all into a story, and all of the sudden, just when everything has you on pins and needles, there pops up a sexual interlude from out of nowhere. It doesn't have any value as far as the story goes, but there it is. It's like the publisher or editor opens the book with no other intention than to see where they can flesh out the story with sex. Although today's young adults do seem to have a healthier outlook on sex than our generation did. I think this is a good thing. When I was a young adult, the word SEX wasn't even spoken without a blush or leer.
Yep, that's true. But I outgrew my old fashioned attitudes about sex taught at home. I also let my kids know that I wasn't going to very happy with them if they had sex while still in HS. I didn't say married though, that was up to them. Since they married in their 20's I'm sure they did. My son and DIL lived together a year before marriage.
I remember sneaking out of the paper shop with a copy of a magazine called, 'Health and efficiency' or some such name. Ladies looked nude but were actually covered in a skin suite. Then we queued for, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.' Books seem to be old hat now we watch porn on our mobiles in public. Being 85 I cannot pass judgement, sex only becomes important when playing Scrabble.