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The library scene in Atonement was a work of art. It really was. Beautifully written, it's a heady combination of atmosphere, anticipation and expert choreography. However, what I really love about that scene is the complex symbolism- love interrupted by a little girl, a relationship destroyed by the war before reaching its climax, if you will. I love Atonement for the new layers of meaning hiding in there every time you re-read it.

My library copy also had a cracked spine at the relevant pages. That's a testament to quality, that is.

The scenes in Lady Chatterley's Lover are classic

Women in Love by DH Lawrence

I just remember reading the sex scene in Lace when I was 14, the one with the goldfish

My books now tend to be horror!
And I've read HausFrau, can't remember the sex scenes much but thought she was a wrong 'un.

I used to adore reading the Jackie Collins blockbusters, they were funny and raunchy, so any of the scenes in her books! :)

If it was banned you kniw it's raunchy ....Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

Lady Chatterley's Lover for sure!!!

I think I must be reading the wrong books as I can't really remember any specific ones. As a teen I read Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins etc because they were passed around and, at the time, the sex scenes seemed very exciting.

One scene that does stick in my mind (for all the wrong reasons) is American Psycho. Never reading that again!

Another one for Outlander. So much passion and care. Also, you cannae beat a man in Highland regalia.

Love the sex scenes in Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, especially when Jamie and Claire first meet, swoon! Jamie has to be ultimate fictional sex god!

This isn't particularly well known or even that well written but I read and re read a book called ' come together' as a teenager, purely for the sex scenes! It was by emlyn rees .

I love Lady chatterlys lover

I haven't read a sex scene in a book for years. I do remember reading Forever by Judy Blume. I learnt a few things. Never forget my Mum taking it off me saying i was too young. Luckily I had already read it.

Anything by Aishling Morgan/ Peter Birch. I couldn't possibly pick one scene. He writes about sex in such an imaginative, fun and erotic way. Endlessly imaginative and always deliciously naughty.

Another vote for Forever by Judy Blume - it's the only one I can remember right now

I've read a few good ones, but a bit from Jeanette Wintersons Power Book comes to mind immediately. I went and looked it up, because tulip sex is a surprisingly wonderful thing!

^“‘Take off your trousers and let me see you.’
So this was the moment. All would be revealed. I no longer cared. Come death, come life, there is a part to play and that is all.
Hesitatingly, I let down the blue and gold of my trousers. There was a silence. Then the Princess said …
‘I have never seen a man before.’
(You’re not seeing one now.)
‘The stories I have heard … the fleshiness, the swelling … but you are like a flower.’
(This was true.)
She touched my bulbs.
‘They are like sweet chestnuts.’
(Tulips, my darling, tulips.)
She stroked the waxy coating I kept fresh to protect them. The tips of her fingers glistened.
‘What do you call these?’
‘This one is Key of Pleasure, and this one is Lover’s Dream.’ I said this quite sincerely because it was so.
‘And what do you call this?’
Her fingers had reached the centre now. I had to think fast.
‘I call it my Stem of Spring.’
She laughed delightedly and kissed the red flower, its petals fastened tight into a head. Fortunately my mother had made it quite secure and the Princess could play with it all she liked.
Then a strange thing began to happen. As the Princess kissed and petted my tulip, my own sensations grew exquisite, but as yet no stronger than my astonishment, as I felt my disguise come to life. The tulip began to stand.
I looked down. There it was, making a bridge from my body to hers.
I was still wearing my tunic and the Princess could not see the leather belt that carried everything with it. All she could see, all she could feel, was the eagerness of my bulbs and stem.
I kneeled down, the tulip waving at me as it had done on the hillside that afternoon I cut it down.
Very gently the Princess lowered herself across my knees and I felt the firm red head and pale shaft plant itself in her body. A delicate green-tinted sap dribbled down her brown thighs.
All afternoon I fucked her.”^

Tipping the Velvet has some lovely steamy scenes too

J R Ward's series - the first books are all great.

The "wrestling" scene in DH Lawrence's Women in Love. Repressed homosexuality made so tantalisingly hot.

Phillipa Gregory, The Wise Woman

Thunderball (the book) has a good scene with Bond and Domino.

Also the scene between Evelyn and Otto in Unexploded, by Alison MacLeod.

The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James.
Its a ghost story really, with a romantic twist and its all anticipation and expectation between two people (I think its set in the 1930s where its a bit more prim and proper - at least in this book anyway). They finally do it and the writer has built the tension so well, and with such love. I couldn't put it down! Normally I am a complete prude and avoid any books with sex scenes if I know they have them. So this is probably the only real sex scene I've ever read, to be fair.

The Outlander series has some very raunchy sexy bits.

Some of them are lovely as well.

I have been left with a kilt fetish.

I can't think of any decent ones, so I'm just lurking for suggestions :o