The document discusses how authors often use sex in their writing to represent something other than just physical intimacy. It notes that when authors write about sex, they are usually conveying deeper meanings, and quotes suggest that famous novels like A Clockwork Orange and Lolita used scenes of "bad sex" to symbolize concepts like evil. The document concludes that sex in literature and real life can be used to signify a wide range of emotions and experiences beyond just pleasure.

1. It’s All About Sex . . .Except Sex
Chapter 17

2. Key Points
• When authors write about sex, they’re really
writing about something else

3. Quotes for Analysis
• When they’re writing about other things, they
really mean sex, and when they write about sex,
they really mean something else. If they write
about sex and strictly mean sex, we have a word
for that. Pornography.

4. Quotes for Analysis
• “Two of the most notorious novels of that same
period of the late 1950s and early 1960s,
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange and
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita are famous for bad
sex. Not bad sex as in unsatisfactory; bad as in
evil.”

5. Quotes for Analysis
• You just know that these scenes mean something
more than what’s going on in them. It’s true in
life as well, where sex can be pleasure, sacrifice,
submission, rebellion, resignation, supplication,
domination, enlightenment, the whole works.”

6. Quotes for Analysis
• You just know that these scenes mean something
more than what’s going on in them. It’s true in
life as well, where sex can be pleasure, sacrifice,
submission, rebellion, resignation, supplication,
domination, enlightenment, the whole works.”