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   George Aristidos October 16, 2011 at 9:55 am ·

   Nothing new said about writing a sex scene here.

   Jennifer Egan’s response is typically middle class and guarded. And John Freeman had problems been frank and voicing certain sexual terminology at one stage.

   Egan says that, as she is a fiction writer, it is less difficult to write about sex. What she doesn’t tell us is that, surely, as a writer, one would also draw upon their own sexual life in a piece of fiction. But again, this area is avoided. By talking in euphemisms and avoiding the reality of sex, it empowers sex as taboo and as something not to be written about honestly.