Bad Sex in Fiction nominees 2002
The nominations have been announced for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. This Times article mentions only one of the ten nominated novels, The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru, which was cited in part for this passage:
His head has been pushed down into the dusty bedclothes, so he cannot see the purple face of the man toiling behind him. He is aware, however, that the pounding is punctuated by buttock-slaps and regular full-throated hunting cries. As the major’s excitement mounts, ‘Tally-ho!’ gives way to ‘On! On! On!’, and the bed groans with the effort of maintaining its structural integrity.
So what's so "bad" about that, either as sex or fiction? Last year around this time, Todd at Mouth Organ expressed his annoyance at the BSiFA's "demonization of erotica just to get a few laughs." What he said. More about the BSiFA from previous years. . . . UPDATE: This BBC article mentions some (but not all) of the other writers on the 2002 short list: Will Self, John Banville, Nicholas Coleridge, Nicola Barker and Ethan Hawke.
