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"This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."
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"Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue."
"People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it."
"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."
"There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex."
"The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward."
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