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Sex is front and centre in literature right now – as a slew of new books interrogating female desire are published, Clare Thorp explores why.
The radical books rewriting sex
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..."On why sex continues to enrapture writers, she refers to the writer Garth Greenwell – hailed as one of the best contemporary writers on sex, and who edited a collection of erotic stories, Kink, last year. Greenwell wrote in The Guardian: "sex is a kind of crucible of humanness, and so the question isn't so much why one would write about sex, as why one would write about anything else."
If sex is a way of exploring the big questions about humanity and interrogating our culture, it can also be pretty joyful for writers, too. "The more free and subversive and unapologetic [my characters] were, the more fun I had writing them," says Philyaw. So, can we expect literature to keep its libido? She certainly hopes so. "There is so much more to explore."
..."On why sex continues to enrapture writers, she refers to the writer Garth Greenwell – hailed as one of the best contemporary writers on sex, and who edited a collection of erotic stories, Kink, last year. Greenwell wrote in The Guardian: "sex is a kind of crucible of humanness, and so the question isn't so much why one would write about sex, as why one would write about anything else."
If sex is a way of exploring the big questions about humanity and interrogating our culture, it can also be pretty joyful for writers, too. "The more free and subversive and unapologetic [my characters] were, the more fun I had writing them," says Philyaw. So, can we expect literature to keep its libido? She certainly hopes so. "There is so much more to explore."
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