Polar exploration takes Bad Sex award (Humor Break)

Guardian (UK) ^ | 12/5/01 | Emma Yates

[jalisco555]

A sex scene comparing an erotic liaison to Sir Ranulph Fiennes's exploration of the north pole has picked up this year's Bad Sex award.

The passage from Christopher Hart's Rescue Me beat off stiff competition from Chuck Palahniuk and Jonathan Franzen, among others, to win the Literary Review's prize.

The winning scene from Rescue Me - the tale of a disgraced PR man whose life is spiralling out of control - reads:

Sorry, you'll have to click the source link for the full article.

[jalisco555]

Gets a bit raunchy so I didn't post the whole article. Amazing what gets called literature.

[bulldawg]

Is the Starr Report listed?

[aculeus]

Note Franzen's inclusion. (Oprah's revenge?)

[Orual]

Note Franzen's inclusion.

The night of Alfred's seventy-fifth birthday had found Chip alone at Tilton Ledge pursuing sexual congress with his red chaise-longue.

One of those headlines from the Sexual Congress.

[LN2Campy]

The passage from Christopher Hart's Rescue Me beat off stiff competition

ha ha ha...

[Orual]

Inadvertently left your name off #4.

[Montfort]

I have drafted a novel with no sex scenes in it, and I was worried that this would be a problem for marketability. These passages convince that I might be better to keep my novel as sexually pure as it is. Stick to the political intrigue and conspiracy theory themes that belong in third-rate fiction, and which I can handle well, and simply avoid any sex whatsoever. It might be a welcome break for some people to read a book without the obligatory sex scenes.

[dighton]

I actually found my self wondering if I would be able to tell a pizza and my wife apart by touch alone ...

Mr. Monaghan, if you happen to be lurking ...

[Orual]

Feminists, particularly those in the Michigan branch of the National Organisation of Women (NOW), see him simply as another crusader from the religious Right, bent on outlawing legal abortion, contraception and any form of unorthodox family structure.

Michigan branch of NOW, if YOU happen to be lurking, get lost.

[aculeus]

I have drafted a novel with no sex scenes in it, and I was worried that this would be a problem for marketability.

Don't giv up. Somon wrot a novl without using the letter 'e'. (Anything is possibl.)

[Orual]

(Anything is possibl.)

Me up at does
out of the floor
quietly Stare
a poisoned mouse
still who alive
is asking What
have i done that
You wouldn't have
-eec

No capitals, no punctuation, bad grammar and he made it.

[xm177e2]

FYI