You're probably rolling your eyes right now and thinking about the cringe-worthy book passages that were nominated for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award, but don't let the bad metaphors and lack of protection in those novels turn you off. Whether you read literary fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, romance, or something else entirely, you have probably been exposed to bad sex writing, but there are are plenty hot sex scenes in books, as rare as they might be. Authors are great at a lot of things - taking readers to new and exciting worlds, making you fall in love with fictional characters, giving us all the Feels with a capital 'F' - but there is one thing writers are notoriously bad at: writing sex scenes.
