As a published author, I appreciate hearing that there are still readers who dislike graphic sex scenes and the usual torrent of vulgarity and cursing that add nothing to the story. Unfortunately, those of us who try to write stories without hardcore sex and violence are often accused of being too vanilla.
IMO cursing and violence often fits with many PAW related story lines. Fact is if there are gritty/scary antagonists they won't sound like choir boys when they speak. Same for protagonists, I once saw a show about black box recordings from plane crashes and the most common last words from pilots right before they slammed into the ground was "Oh ****!". When raw emotions overflow most folks will use colorful language.
Graphic sex scenes are a whole different ballgame though. First off the vast majority of mainstream thriller/crime/horror novels do not include any graphic sex. Secondly they require a level of skill that most PAW fiction writers have NOT acquired. Fact is most people that write erotic fiction create separate pieces, they don't write an action/adventure story and then just throw those elements in because the genres are so different and quite frankly if readers wanted erotic material they wouldn't be reading an action/adventure/paw story!
Of course some authors can successfully throw graphic sex into existing story lines (Clive Barker is an example, his horror novels include a lot of various elements) because their entire story line involves very gritty dark eccentric characters so it fits, but most can't do it well so they don't even try.
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