There are hundreds of literary prizes given out every year, all over the world, but a little-known award is the annual Literary Review Bad Sex prize given out in the U.K. for the worst description of sex in a contemporary novel. This year?s winner is Wendy Perriam for a description in her novel “Tread Softly.” It contains the lines “Weirdly, he was clad in pin-stripes at the same time as being naked. Pin-stripes were erotic, the uniform of fathers, two-dimensional fathers. Even Mr. Hughes’s penis had a seductive pin-striped foreskin.” The runner-up was Nicolas Coleridge, author ?Godchildren,? in which he describes a man stroking his lover “like a groom reassuring a frightened foal.” Previous winner Christopher Hart used a polar exploration as a metaphor for love-making.
Perriam has been nominated for the prize three times in a row. She says she?s “stunned but pleased” that she won. She attributes her ability to write sex scenes to her Catholic upbringing. “We were taught that sex was wicked and so I became totally fascinated by it,” she says. “In a sense I write sex scenes as I still want to be sure that it really happens and that people are taking the risk of going to hell…”
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