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Share your favourite fictional sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of HAUSFRAU plus £100 worth of luxury chocolate

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UrsulaMumsnet · 21/03/2016 10:51

Anna was a good wife, mostly...

Anna Benz, an American in her late-thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno - a banker - and their three young children, in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich.

Though she leads a comfortable life, she is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with Bruno, or even her own feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises her.

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Share your favourite fictional sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of HAUSFRAU plus £100 worth of luxury chocolate
Share your favourite fictional sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of HAUSFRAU plus £100 worth of luxury chocolate
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juliedee4663 · 21/03/2016 17:59

I love anything by Jilly Cooper, particularly the pubic hair topiary :-)

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 21/03/2016 17:58

I can't think of a single good sex scene, although the one between Roland of Gilead and Irene Tannenbaum in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is one of the better ones, mostly because it's tender and sweet.
I can think of plenty of bad ones but the two worst are:

  1. also by King - in 'Needful Things' - it's hideous
  2. In Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy - as why as I'm concerned the sex scenes turn this from a series which could be good to something utterly ridiculous
Larnipoo · 21/03/2016 17:55

Gotta be the woodshed in Lady Chatterly 😜

Givemecoffeeplease · 21/03/2016 17:40

Jilly Cooper - when Rupert "schools" a big bottomed Hermione round a horse school, complete with leather and whips. Hilarious. Also, props to Jilly for embracing the terms bush and bonking.

jammy388 · 21/03/2016 17:34

I prefer old-fashioned romance so anything Jane Austen for me.

Pamaga · 21/03/2016 17:20

My favourite sex scenes from a novel are from the classic Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. It is one of the earliest works of erotic fiction and still works for me!

OutiC · 21/03/2016 17:16

"It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave. Yet the passion licked round her, consuming, and when the sensual flame of it pressed through her bowels and breast, she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death..." Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence