More Bad Sex Writing from Travel Writers

We recently noted that Paul Theroux was on this year’s list of nominees in the “Bad Sex in Fiction Awards.” But it turns out he wasn’t the only travel writer implicated. Both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, who have dabbled in the genre for Granta, made this year’s short list. The Guardian has provided a number of choice passages, so you can judge for yourself whose bad sex writing was the worst.

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