Why can't men write about sex?

30 September 2015 - 02:05
By Joel Snape, ©The Sunday Telegraph

So Morrissey is terrible at writing about sex. His debut novel, 'List of the Lost', which came out last week, was universally panned for its toe-curlingly awful sex scenes, deemed so bad he was immediately hailed as a potential winner of this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award.But the only surprising thing about this is that so many people seem surprised; that they really did expect the famously once-celibate author of the line "There are explosive kegs/between my legs" to be capable of penning a...

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