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Georgia Nicholls

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"There will never be enough time, or a large enough word count, to create the ‘perfect’ representation of sex; rather, there is always the potential for better (meaning educative, empowering, enjoyable) representations." - From @georgianic.bsky.social 's PhD thesis (with attached novel)
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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
From Georgia Nicholl's "Between the sheets: physiological sex acts in the contemporary romance novel" Note: as far as I can tell, this article only looks at novels with heterosexual, cis protagonists.
I am aware – as a romance writer myself – how difficult it can be to write sex scenes, let alone sex scenes that divert from readerly expectations of sexual scripts and strive for egalitarianism. But there is a degree of responsibility that romance novelists should take on when it comes to the sex they write and, in turn, promote.
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