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Infographic: The worst sex scenes in fiction

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Over the past 25 years, the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award has shone an annual spotlight on novelists fumbling for words, elevating awkward euphemisms into hilarious, award-winning awkward euphemisms. In DG #29 we celebrated this unlikely literary phenomenon with our favourite fleshly flourishes from the past decade…

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