It’s sex scenes week in my class on writing intimacy and connection. I wanted to give my students a wide range of scenes, so I piled on the texts. Turns out reading oh, 8 different kinds of sex scenes more or less back to back is a little brain-breaking. Not complaining, necessarily.

Here’s the excerpts I’m using, in case you’re curious…

R. O. Kwon 권오경 ‘s Exhibit, Pamela Erens’s The Virgins, Aria Aber’s Good Girl, Lisa Locasio Nighthawk’s Open Me, Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, K Patrick’s Mrs. S, Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, and courtesy of my building’s laundry room book share shelf, Juliette Miller’s Highlander Taken (look it up).

And, of course, Melissa Febos’s essay Mindfuck, which you can (and should) read here: thesewaneereview.com/ar…"