<p>have you ever read water for elephants? how about breaking dawn (twilight book)? or ransom my heart? the kite runner? do you remember the rape and sex scenes (or almost sex scenes) in those books? There's this girl in my class ( we're sophomores, but she is almost one year older than me due to her late birthday) that CLAIMS she skips all these scenes in the books because they are disgusting. and she thinks she is very mature for this act.
I'm asking you cc'ers, do you skip these scenes in the books? I read the kite runner and breaking dawn from cover to cover, and i was basically indifferent to the scenes. sex isnt disgusting, nor insanely interesting.</p>
<p>Well, the sex scene in Breaking Dawn is more of a “fade to black” type thing, but that’s seriously one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Especially for the Kite Runner. The rape scene is one of the most important ones in the book! Why would you skip over it? I understand skipping over gratuitous sex scenes, but that one sets up the rest of the novel.</p>
<p>how is feeling disgust for sex a mature thing?</p>
<p>^beats the heck out of me. its so annoying when this girl talks about how cool she is for skipping the scenes.</p>
<p>Approximately 97% of all sex scenes in books and movies are completely unnecessary.</p>
<p>Usuallt they are boring in books, but are better to watch in movies.</p>
<p>the scene in looking for alaska</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>love in the time of the cholera. sex throughout.</p>
<p>I agree with Harry but I wouldn’t go so far as to say 97%. In Breaking Dawn, the sex scenes are relatively important because the couple conceives Renesmee (I spelled that correctly, right?) and Meyer needed something to show for it. While I concur that it is a bit unnecessary, it still serves a slight purpose. She could’ve saved a few chapters by skipping over the honeymoon part, but I guess she was aiming to please readers. In The Kite Runner, the rape scene was a key component of the book. The entire novel centers around it.</p>
<p>As to the OP’s concerns, skipping over sex scenes isn’t a gesture of maturity and your classmate is apparently pretty naive for thinking that sex is disgusting. Let me guess, she’s a virgin? And to make a prediction, she’ll probably stay that way for a loooong time.</p>
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I haven’t read the book so I can’t be sure, but this sounds like an example of an unnecessary sex scene. </p>
<p>Honeymoon -> Sex -> Formation of babby</p>
<p>Everyone knows this. And if you don’t know this, you’re not old enough to be reading books with sex in them.</p>
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<p>I guess you’ve never read How to Read Literature Like a Professor. According to the author, any sex scene in a book worth reading isn’t about sex at all. I remember he devoted two full chapters on the subject, one about how to go about interpreting actual sex scenes and another about scenes in which it is implied (through metaphors, symbolic actions, fades-to-black, or any other way). So no, nowhere near 97% of sex scenes are unnecessary, unless you’re talking about teen romances or books like that, which really don’t count.</p>
<p>I love Ransom my Heart!! and I don’t really mind the sex scenes… they’re super hot</p>
<p>^[1]This[/url</a>]? Looks interesting.</p>
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This is basically what I was talking about. (I think. I’m not sure what exactly come under ‘books like that’).</p>
<p>^ Haha, it was required reading for AP Lit (I think it’s pretty ubiquitous in this respect). I thought it was a pretty easy and informative read.</p>
<p>I didn’t really mean anything in particular by “books like that.” I guess books that are based pretty much entirely on fan-service, focusing more on what might please the reader instead of on character development or well-constructed plots or whatever else it is that makes good literature great.</p>
<p>Guys, come on. There are NO sex scenes in Breaking Dawn.</p>
<p>^ Just in the readers’ (teenage girls’) minds</p>
<p>I liked Water for Elephants.</p>
<p>If someone can’t handle the subject of sex or rape in a high school English class, I doubt they are mature enough to be in high school, or shouldn’t be allowed to graduate.</p>
<p>Rape is almost understandable, but sex itself isn’t.</p>