The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:33:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Roth's Bad Sex http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:33:34 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex "This was not soft porn. This was no longer two unclothed women caressing and kissing on a bed. There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though in the room filled with shadows, Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not and was not supposed to be. There was something dangerous about it. His heart thumped with excitement – the god Pan looking on from a distance with his spying, lascivious gaze." Philip Roth's The Humbling makes the shortlist for the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award. A green dildo is also involved.

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]]> "This was not soft porn. This was no longer two unclothed women caressing and kissing on a bed. There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though in the room filled with shadows, Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not and was not supposed to be. There was something dangerous about it. His heart thumped with excitement – the god Pan looking on from a distance with his spying, lascivious gaze." Philip Roth's The Humbling makes the shortlist for the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award. A green dildo is also involved.

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