November 30th, 2011 / 10:19 am
 Random & Snippets
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Can anyone name some writing that is sexy without containing any actual sex?

29 Comments

  1. November 30th, 2011 / 10:57 am jesusangelgarcia—

      Just finished Anais Nin’s Collages. No sex, but some sumptuous language. And of course, Duino Elegies!

  2. November 30th, 2011 / 10:59 am Craig Ronald Marchinkoski—

      _midnight’s children_: the bollywood apple kiss pass kiss bit.

      “butterscotch”

  3. November 30th, 2011 / 11:13 am Joseph Riippi—

      The last line of “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje. 

  4. November 30th, 2011 / 11:28 am jesusangelgarcia—

      Ondaatje’s words levitate, no?

  5. November 30th, 2011 / 11:35 am Erik Stinson—

      nothing about food or cars or money, i guess

  6. November 30th, 2011 / 11:42 am Petya K. Grady—

      Alex Dimitrov’s poetry.

  7. November 30th, 2011 / 11:57 am Scottmcclanahan—

      Lorca.

  8. November 30th, 2011 / 12:12 pm Cassandra—

      Beyonce

  9. November 30th, 2011 / 12:19 pm Broah Cicero—

      John Donne

  10. November 30th, 2011 / 12:35 pm Drwho—

      ALICE MUNRO. Her stories are always loaded with sexy tension but never the act.

  11. November 30th, 2011 / 12:44 pm Honey—

      In answer to a slightly different question – lots of sex that isn’t particularly sexy – Salter’s A Sport and A Pasttime, and the very new Hooked, by John Franc.

  12. November 30th, 2011 / 12:58 pm Joseph Riippi—

      Indeed they do.

  13. November 30th, 2011 / 1:06 pm stefan michael—

      First book that comes to this addled mind is Huysman’s À rebours, although I may be leaning to heavily toward the natural decadence of the imagination than actual sex. 

  14. November 30th, 2011 / 1:14 pm Bradford—

      Baruch Spinoza

  15. November 30th, 2011 / 3:45 pm rhodes—

      Contains sex, but doesn’t.  Carole Maso’s Aureole.

  16. November 30th, 2011 / 3:51 pm barry—

      not sure, but pictures of really fat cats make my dick hard…

  17. November 30th, 2011 / 4:48 pm Leapsloth14—

      Depeche Mode

  18. November 30th, 2011 / 8:36 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      Noooooooo… (please?)

  19. November 30th, 2011 / 8:38 pm Cassandra's Vagina—

      Alessandro Baricco’s Silk

  20. November 30th, 2011 / 8:47 pm alan—

      some people think the sperm-squeezing scene in Moby Dick is hot

  21. November 30th, 2011 / 11:46 pm Cvan—

      Catherine Lacey’s book reviews, of course.

  22. November 30th, 2011 / 11:58 pm Elfgard the Drorg Slayer—

      Uh, what? Did you read James Salter’s Sport, or some other Salter?

  23. December 1st, 2011 / 12:46 am John Minichillo—

      Stuart Dybek’s “We Didn’t”

  24. December 1st, 2011 / 1:15 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Fifth Business was so boring that I stopped reading it to jack off.

  25. December 1st, 2011 / 2:35 am Brooks Sterritt—

      who?

  26. December 1st, 2011 / 10:37 am JW—

      D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love.  I found it to be highly erotic.

  27. December 1st, 2011 / 5:27 pm Merzmensch—

      EE Cummings (not everything),
      and of course: the car sex scene from Danielewskis “House of Leaves”. Imho the most erotic scene I’ve ever read, but so dadaistic and vocabularily abstract, that it’s more erotic as it can be.

  28. December 4th, 2011 / 6:32 am Nick Antosca—

      We’re on different planets

  29. December 11th, 2011 / 3:09 pm Dominique—

      “I the woman” by Sandra Cisneros