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Bad Sex Part I

Thinking about talking about writing about sex

Huw Lemmey
Apr 07, 2021
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This piece contains a brief mention of incest.

Nothing epitomises, quite so much, everything I hate about England than the Bad Sex Awards. Starting in 1993, the prize, awarded each year (until last) by the London-based magazine Literary Review, is bestowed upon an author for producing a sex scene that is “crude, tasteless [and] often perfunctory” in thei…

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