The Erotic Review, a British magazine, recently made headlines by announcing that it was hiring male writers. The female owner said that women “have an agenda, they complicate sex, they make layers, it’s conditional.”
According to a recent LA Times blog post, Kate Copstick, “the new owner of the British magazine Erotic Review, has declared that it’ll be seeking male contributors to prevent the magazine from being ‘drowned in estrogen.’
If that’s not controversial enough, the Times blogger, Carolyn Kellogg, titles her column “Chicks Can’t Write Sex.”
Predictably, Copstick’s manifesto has drawn ire, as it was no doubt supposed to, both affirming the ability of women to write good sex scenes, and questioning whether men are even all that good at it. Novelist Kathy Lette takes off on “the Bad Sex Award-winning ‘Charlotte Grey’ by Sebastian Faulks, for example, or the later work of John Updike,” declaring that they “read like a hard day’s work at the orifice.” [Guardian]
What writers turn you on? Do you find that females are better at describing hot sex? Or guys?
(P.S. Note that most sex bloggers are female but most writers of sex in entertainment are male. Unless you count romance novels…)