...I'm talking about explicit sexual language in writing. I have come to the conclusion that while it may have its place in certain stories, I'll find a way to eliminate it from my writing. Several of my author/editor/reader fans have said I write great sex scenes, but I'll find a way to write great sex scenes without mentioning specific acts or body parts, you know like some of the romance writers do.
For those who are wondering, these scenes appear in the Detective Tony Mariani series:
The Da Vinci Diamond (novel)
The 7 Hills Technology Group (#2)
but I will even take them out of future stories within that series.
I want to be able to market my work to all ages and using adult content in one story means a teenager can't (or shouldn't) read one of my collections. For the most part, my writing is PG-13, similar to the content in a movie. There will be sex, and certainly love, in the story, but it will be handled in an appropriate manner, so as not to offend anyone.
You would think in this day and age of explicit music lyrics and videos, I would be fine with writing racy scenes and explicit descriptions, but I decided to opt out of that content.
I welcome comments on this decision as well as criticism.
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