Is Sex really necessary?

Post by **Sushan Ekanayake** » 16 Jul 2020, 11:15

Bobo_K wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 08:05 In my opinion, sex is necessary as long as humans are involved. I think the author was being aware of this very fact.

It is a part of the human nature. Yet, is it that much connected in order to mention always?

Post by **Sushan Ekanayake** » 16 Jul 2020, 11:18

tjportugal wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 08:58 Memorable author never resort to descriptions of explicit sex in their narratives. They always choose to portray the highest values that come with a dignified erotic relationship or, when portraying immorality or indincency, they tend to prefer a tone of "what a pity..."
Explicit descriptions tend to be very "animal-ish". Instead, true human relations are divine.

That is acceptable, yet the amount and the extent of the descriptions depend on the type of book

Post by **Sushan Ekanayake** » 16 Jul 2020, 11:20

mariana90 wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 11:12 I think the sex scenes were added as a means to pace the story. Especially in sci-fi adventure, if the story moves along at breakneck speed without pause, the readers become tired and plotpoints become less effective.

Having said this, the pacing could have easily been moderated by other kinds of scenes, not necessarily sexy ones. In my opinion, sex was chosen to widen the target audience.

Pace can be kept by many means. So the use of those scenes might have been done with dual purpose, to keep the pace as well as to widen the target audience

Essywa · Post by **Essywa** » 16 Jul 2020, 12:02

Sushan wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 05:55
Essywa wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 04:14 Definitely yes,Grant is a young man who is discovering/ experimenting with life. He is human and has feelings and interacts with women in his expedition so what do you expect?
If the author's intent was to show Grant as a playboy, then it was successful by the inclusion of his multiple encounters

Absolutely correct I do agree with you.

MeleMallory · Post by **MeleMallory** » 16 Jul 2020, 13:40

I think the sexual relationship between Grant and Irina during the expedition made sense, as they had a relationship beforehand. They are both attractive young humans, we have sexual urges and do have lots of sex. I also believe that when humans are put together in small groups for long periods of time, sex will happen. It’s human nature. Now, was all the bed-hopping necessary? No. Grant didn’t need to have sex with all the women on the expedition. The four-way between him and the three women scientists was unnecessary. And I don’t buy the explanation that there were hormones in the air causing all the sex drives. I’m not a scientist but I don’t think hormones work that way. I also don’t think all the women would get pregnant at the same time; that seemed to be very out of place.

Mc20bookfan666 · Post by **Mc20bookfan666** » 16 Jul 2020, 16:03

is sex really necessary?
My opinion is "absolutely YES" it is for couples bf or gfs/ married couple .To those people starting the mutual relationship to build up.Sex is really do a strong impact to all sex lovers out there.
Thats why for me it is necessary to do because of this we can build or start a strong relationship especially to those people who really discovering their mutual feelings with each other for me necessary means atleast four times in .To those husband and wives it is really more necessary because if the more often we do sex to.our couple the more founder and stronger the family will be and sex explore is special ingredients in couple relationship. Bf and gf it is not really necessary unless the lovers are into deep relationship to build a marriage and family to those bf and gf i dont think its necessary and needed..big no"unless guys has serious purpose to you so girls say "No".

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Official Melody · Post by **Official Melody** » 16 Jul 2020, 17:26

In my own point of view about what I have read I don't think sex is necessary in most book we write,book are meant for teaching not for sex story ,so I can also say u can read book with love story quote ND many but not always book should be all About sex.

Post by **Sushan Ekanayake** » 16 Jul 2020, 20:29

MeleMallory wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 13:40 I think the sexual relationship between Grant and Irina during the expedition made sense, as they had a relationship beforehand. They are both attractive young humans, we have sexual urges and do have lots of sex. I also believe that when humans are put together in small groups for long periods of time, sex will happen. It’s human nature. Now, was all the bed-hopping necessary? No. Grant didn’t need to have sex with all the women on the expedition. The four-way between him and the three women scientists was unnecessary. And I don’t buy the explanation that there were hormones in the air causing all the sex drives. I’m not a scientist but I don’t think hormones work that way. I also don’t think all the women would get pregnant at the same time; that seemed to be very out of place.

Yes, in between Grant and Irina it was reasonable. But when the author took it to a further level it was quite out of place

miss_kinsella · Post by **miss_kinsella** » 16 Jul 2020, 20:56

I believe the inclusion of sex scenes generally for an author are to install a level of matureness within a book. Of course sometimes it can speak volumes of a characters' personality depending on the amount or type of sex they choose to partake in and this is what the author is trying to get across.

Erandi Ekanayake · Post by **Erandi Ekanayake** » 16 Jul 2020, 22:11

Readers might get bored if the story does not contain a variation of emotions. Therefore including sexual encounters to the plot stands as an effective trick to broaden the audience. Yet I don't think that adding sex scenes to each and every fiction is compulsory.

Unique Ego · Post by **Unique Ego** » 17 Jul 2020, 00:08

I think an author is never wrong in his own creation but the inclusion of sexual encounters in the plot was largely unnecessary.

D0rcas · Post by **D0rcas** » 17 Jul 2020, 02:43

Ify_Reviewer wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 06:25 I didn't see the necessity of the sexual encounter in the book but I would like to think that the author wanted to depict the fact that human can still be distracted by natural instincts like sex even when engrossed in other activities.

I tend to disagree with the first part of your sentence, while agreeing with the second part

Grant became more 'human' to me as a reader because he did engage in sex, despite his/our misgivings about his sexual partner. Maybe the scene was a tad too graphic

? But necessary, yes

Marion Jepkosgei · Post by **Marion Jepkosgei** » 17 Jul 2020, 04:29

Sushan wrote: ↑15 Jul 2020, 20:09
Marion Jepkosgei wrote: ↑15 Jul 2020, 12:25 Ruling out the sex as irrelevant in the book is just defying our human nature. Just because Grant was on an expedition to find his uncle doesn't mean he shuts the natural instinct to have sex. To me, Fred's addition of a sex in the book is pretty normal. No man is an island.
Having a mission doesn't mean that he/she has to suppress all his/her other needs and practises

True. Sex is natural and very vital for us human beings.

SophiaNd · Post by **SophiaNd** » 17 Jul 2020, 06:57

I believe the sex scenes were necessary as it is also part of life. it only made the whole story more realistic and not too artificial.

SophiaNd · Post by **SophiaNd** » 17 Jul 2020, 06:59

Erandi Ekanayake wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020, 22:11 Readers might get bored if the story does not contain a variation of emotions. Therefore including sexual encounters to the plot stands as an effective trick to broaden the audience. Yet I don't think that adding sex scenes to each and every fiction is compulsory.

Exactly my view too. If there were no emotions to the story, it would be boring, for me though.