THE BEST SEX (According to the Penguin List)

Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
A Spy in the House of Love
Anaïs Nin
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Venus In Furs
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer

The Best Sex (according to Semicolon)
I am at a serious disadvantage here because I don’t like to read explicit descriptions of sexual acts (see the post immediately before this one). I hold to that quaint old idea that some things are meant to be private. However, I do have one selection in this category.

Song of Songs by Solomon. Solomon is describing his love for and sexual attraction to his wife (even if she was only one of many), and it’s a very beautiful and sexually alluring description of the love of a man and his wife.

I can’t think of any other classic writers who write about this subject with excellence and without becoming prurient or prudish. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Maybe some poet would be a good choice in this category. It seems to me that poetry could preserve the mystery and the beauty of sex at the same time. I haven’t read the books on the Penguin list, except for some of the Canterbury Tales. Should I? Somehow I doubt the others would be up my alley.