An interesting read in today's New York Times' Sunday Book Review section: A bunch of writers have written on how to best represent sex in literature and on what their first encounter with sex scenes in literature were.
I liked what Nicholson Baker said: His first brush with sex was via a "porno paperback" in 4th grade, and an image struck him, an image of a woman squatting.
"I thought that “squat” was just about the most exciting notion I’d ever encountered" he writes, and adds that "a good sex scene needs thwartedness, surprise, innocence and hair."
When it's Alison Bechdel's turn, she does it graphically:
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