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2008 Bad Sex Award: the shortlist


The Guardian offers some excerpts from this year’s worst sex scenes. Try reading them aloud at your Thanksgiving feast!

From Simon Montefiore’s Sashenka:

He’s a madman, she thought as he made love to her again. Oh my God, after twenty years of being the most rational Bolshevik woman in Moscow, this goblin has driven me crazy!

He eased out of her again, showing himself.

‘Look!’ he whispered as she did. […]

He made her forget she was a Communist.


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