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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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.

Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back...

Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary; Hausfrau is the exceptional, haunting, and elegant debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum.

Share your favourite sex scenes from books for your chance to win a copy of Hausfrau plus a huge box of luxury chocolates worth £100!

This discussion is sponsored by Picador and will close on 18 April.

I remember Ray Kluun's "Love Life" having some quite erotic scenes in it in the middle of all the sadness. Powerful!

Many scenes throughout the Fifty Shades of Grey novel - too many to specify!

I love adele parks books and the sex scenes - can be cheesy but fab reading!

The Stephanie Plum sex scenes always make me chuckle - not sure if that says a lot about me lol.

The first one that I remember is the one in 'Grease' in the back of a car. We had our 2 teenage sons with us and they were giving sideways glances to each other - wondering if we would make them leave the cincma. They still complain their Dad switched off 'Grange Hill' on the tv!

A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal... “She grasped me so suddenly it hurt. I was intimidated, and she laughed. One thing I could do was I crawled back on top of her and so she had to let go."

Lace....the goldfish ....need i say anymore !

I prefer wording that is not explicit but leaves just enough that your imagination can totally take over, Lady Chatterley's lover is a total example, raunchy without being crude and still holds romance :)

Not sure if this quite fits, but Wilt, by Tom Sharpe, with the disposal of the blow up sex scene was utterly hilarious.

Any from 50 shades of grey

The first one I read stuck with me - the threesome scene in Riders. I was so shocked! It seems incredibly tame now.

Definitely the Matlock island scene between Maggie and Father Ralph, in The Thornbirds!!

I'm not a lover of romantic fiction, so I really cannot think of a favourite. I prefer crime novels and mysteries.

A A Gill's book, I'm pretty sure it even got a Bad Sex Award.

Oh it's got to be lady chatterleys lover - any part!!!!

Pretty much any of the sex scenes from the Outlander series are great.

Book I read called dirty :)

'Forever' by Judy Blume - this book went round all the girls in my class - with a hefty crease on the spine so it always fell open at the juicy bits, ha! This was the first mildly erotic thing I ever read & it feels very innocent now :) A classic line which I always remember 'Ralph was small & soft & just hung there' - Ralph, if you're wondering, is not her boyfriend - it's the name she gives his penis. Lovely name for a penis!

has to be the brother/sister sex scene in flowers of the attic- quite disturbing but an interesting read!

I liked Jim and Abby in Vox by Nicholson Baker. The whole book is one long telephone conversation on a phone sex line, because it was written before the internet, where people would ring up and find someone to talk to and then go onto a private line for phone sex.

Jim and Abby were lovely, talking about all kinds of fantasies and real experiences before the 'climax' (of both people and book, as it ends just after that), but with Jim and Abby swapping real phone numbers and promising to call each other again soon, leaving you hoping they really meet up.

I read it years ago and nothing else has ever been quite as memorable, because they were these two nice people meeting by chance, and all the intimacy was over the phone so it seemed unusual and more real.

I read another book at the same time, Under the Vulcania by Maureen Freely, which was about a kind of Day Spa place which also provided sexual services to women.

They got to fill out a form detailing the sort of sex they wanted, and the main woman, whose name I can't remember now, picks some kind of fantasy surprise package, but the man running the Spa seems to have a very detailed knowledge of what her fantasies are, so as she moves through the Spa's different rooms and zones she starts to work out that something more is going on and who might be behind it.

I wasn't as fond of that book as I was of Vox, but I remember reading that the author finished the book while she was in labour, and the midwife was a bit surprised when she asked what she was writing about and had that plot explained to her.

I think the reason both are memorable though is because they are the first books I read where women seemed to be more active and in control, knowing what they liked and wanted, asking for what they wanted and expecting it to happen, and it wasn't all passive swooning at the sight of his thighs and manhood, and trembling at his touch. It felt a lot more modern and real.

I really liked the earlier Anita Blake books by Laurell K Hamilton although a lot of the recent ones appear to have forgotten that it's nice to have some story between the sex scenes...

The very sexy scene at the beginning of The Godfather- they are at a wedding and the sex scene where they have sex up against the wall- very descriptive about his large....!!

Any from The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning :) Definitely worth reading xx

This is a really odd way of marketing Hausfrau. Its not erotic or romantic fiction at all. Anyone who reads it expecting that is going to be very disappointed (and depressed!).

I find sex scenes quite difficult to read. They're either coy and silly and full of euphemism, or too rough and ready. There are far more badly written sex scenes than ones that have stayed with me.