Is Sex really necessary?

[Sushan Ekanayake]

For me, sex is a natural occurrence and everyone would normally have urges, it’s now left for you as a person to decide to physically get involved sexually or not. So generally, I think it was just normal for Grant as a young guy to have sex even amidst the quest of finding his Uncle. The book is a good read.

Well expressed and a very practical point of view.

Anything could have happened in a real-time situation

[Sushan Ekanayake]

Okay, this is a really good question, and one I have asked myself this very same question when I watch movies and read novels.

How do the characters find the time, energy, and what not to engage in sexual encounters when the world could literally be crashing around you? On one hand, I feel like it falls on the line of over-saturated romance, you know when you are watching a film and for no reason, the main character or side character winds up getting paired off with someone. It doesn't help the story, but it doesn't really help it either. I think the same happens with the sexual encounters, it sometimes makes it feel more adult, more mature, but the thing is, it only feels that way when there is the right context.

If you are going to have it in the story, then just like everything else, it needs to add something. It needs to hold a role, otherwise, why not write a Harlequin romance instead. At least then it would be expected.

Everything included in a fiction should either support the plot or the character development. If not they will be felt like out of place

[Sushan Ekanayake]

Sex is necessary and at the same time no necessary. It all depends on the spouses or a sex partner if you have a partner who loves sex them technically sex will be necessary.
In my own point of view sex is necessary only if you love it.

That is a different point of view. Anyway, then what about the circumstances and the supportive or non-supportive environmental factors?

[Sushan Ekanayake]

I did find the scenes a bit unexpected but I think to leave them out would be to limit the three-dimensional nature of Grant's character. He felt more human after that encounter.

Maybe those scenes were necessary to show who Grant really is

[Sushan Ekanayake]

Although I agree that sex is not necessarily important for books to include, I don’t think the inclusion here is out of place. I think it demonstrates how one can still be deterred by our more baser/natural instinct, regardless of the various tasks at hand.

I absolutely agree with you! It is a baser instinct that can spring out of the strangest situations, and I think that was what the author was proving. I also believe it was an element that the author wanted to add because of the plants found during the expedition. Including it may not have propelled the story, but I don't think it was completely out of left field.

The author has his own reasons for its inclusion, and the plot also supports its occurrence

[Sushan Ekanayake]

In my opinion, the sex scenes were a distraction from what was actually happening. I found it shocking that author decided to add sex scenes. It adds up to why I felt the book dragged on for a bit too long.

I totally agree with this. The sex scenes were not necessary.

Some have felt the story bit dragging due to these scenes, which makes them unwanted

[Sushan Ekanayake]

I think that just like movies sometimes sexual content is added to increase the entertainment value of the piece rather than adding to the overall flow of the story. I think that sexual content can be used in novels, but it needs to be done with care. Grant is a young man and I think that the author went with that mindset in including those scenes.

Yes, Grant is a young man, and in that aspect there is a place for this content

[Sushan Ekanayake]

I don't think sex was a necessary add in this book. It just doesn't mesh well with the general topic/theme.

Considering the plot generally, those content could have been excluded

[Sushan Ekanayake]

Sex is necessary, in as much as the book is fiction the reader still imagines a lot of the scenes and experiences some parts of the book through imagination. Sex is a part of us. I do not see any harm in it being included.

Apparently there is no harm by its inclusion. But it has to go along with the main plot

[JB3]

I thought that the sex was needed for the story but I felt that it was unnecessary in some parts and eventually got excessive. I felt that it helped to show the effects of the plants that were in Zona on the characters.

[Sushan Ekanayake]

I thought that the sex was needed for the story but I felt that it was unnecessary in some parts and eventually got excessive. I felt that it helped to show the effects of the plants that were in Zona on the characters.

Once or twice can be okay. But when provided in excess, the reader may get exhausted

[Reader047]

Sex is natural thing in human life. It's inclusion was not made to attract readers who love reading books with sexual graphics. Instead, I believe that the author did this to portray the true nature of mankind.

[Sushan Ekanayake]

Sex is natural thing in human life. It's inclusion was not made to attract readers who love reading books with sexual graphics. Instead, I believe that the author did this to portray the true nature of mankind.

That might have been the true intent of the author, but finally it is the reader's personal perspect

[Pearl Hijabi]

I don't think sex is necessary in the story. But I also think it portrays how humans mind detour towards natural instinct despite the situation or the tasks at hand.

[Echez_]

Actually, for Grant to engage in sexual encounters is out of place. Although, how the author described the whole process was a bit annoying. But that's the whole point of fictonal books. Meanwhile, I disagree that including that in the book is unimportant. Grant is a human being and so should be prone to sexual urges