The best sex scenes in literature: threesome making love between giant turtles

What is the best sex scene or passage in literature?

Today it would seem somewhat innocent to ask the question given the omnipresence of sex in society in visual format and the spread of pornography on the Internet.

But books and reading have enormous power in the realm of the libido and have always stimulated the imagination in a way that no other medium does.

Those who have grown and matured with books have a different relationship with eroticism.

The selection of the best sex in literature —in the absence of a popular vote that we encourage from here— must necessarily be a personal and reductionist matter.

Partly because it is difficult to cover the universal literary production analyzed from that perspective, but above all because everyone has their opinion about what is best in sex.

In any case, here are a few proposals,

some more classic and obvious, more obvious, than others, but all with the best intention of awakening and encouraging reflection and debate, and whatever.

Some passages are from books considered to be of the erotic genre, but others belong to generalist novels and even some to science fiction.

Let's start in style with a great narrative classic,

, by DH Lawrence (editions in Alianza, De Bolsillo, Austral, Cátedra), which was better for sensuality than TE Lawrence, a man, the one with Arabia, more sand than dust (although a fragment of

may surprise).

One of the erotic peaks of the novel —which we remember was not labeled obscenity in the United States until 1959— is Connie's third clandestine love affair with the ranger Mellors when they arrive together for the first time at the end (somewhat better than your husband reading to you to Racine, as Clifford does to her).

“He bared the front of her body and Connie felt her bare flesh against her as he entered her.

For an instant she remained motionless inside her;

shaky and turgid.

Then he began to move, in her sudden and inevitable orgasm, and he awakened in her a strange shudder that made her vibrate inside her.

Vibrate, vibrate, vibrate, like the flickering flurries of feather-soft flames, rising to intensely bright points, melting everything inside her.

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Taking advantage of the fact that one of the numerous film versions

's lover starred in 1984 Sylvia Kristel, who had played

With the same director (the illustrious Just Jaeckin), it makes sense to highlight a scene from the novel by Emmanuelle Arsan (Tusquets, 2002), the pseudonym of Marayat Rollet-Andriane, on which the paradigmatic soft-porn film was based quite faithfully.

As you can imagine, there are quite a few risqué passages in that French response to Dien Bien Phu, but given the choice of one, that of the encounter in the shower of the liberal protagonist with her desired androgynous friend Bee, sister of the US naval attaché (for if the data adds something), it is funny that at least the heavy philosopher with the pants down, Mario, does not come out;

nor the Concorde nor the

.

“Emmanuelle puts her arms around her friend's neck and kisses her on her lips.

She moans with pleasure when Bee's body clings to hers: the dripping freshness of her two skins is, in itself, a caress.

She presses hers against hers her body, slowly rubs her pubis against his”.

Image of the 'Decameron', by Pasolini.

And since we are with Arsan, let's point out another novel by the writer, in which she goes much more to the point,

(Alcor, 1990), about a young woman, Jade, who ends up in the true harem that a millionaire has set up in Costa Rica and where the most outrageous hedonism reigns, and long live hedonism.

In a passage that remains in the memory, the protagonist, her friend Gina and the driver for all Alejandro watch the giant tortoises make their sunset on the beach and, excited, the girls take off their clothes and stretch out on the shells. Then the three of them make love wildly on the sand surrounded by the great stupefied chelonians.

“They lost their balance and rolled.

Alejandro was on his back, with the two girls on top.

The young women's breasts hung over his face.

His two lovers took it in turn.

Sharing it”.

Sometimes it is not necessary to be explicit to achieve great effects.

One of the most intense moments in literature is when Emma Bovary (

, Alianza, Cátedra, Akal) begins her affair with her lover: “The fabric of her dress caught on the velvet of the frock coat of Rodolfo;

she leaned back her white neck, with a sigh, and, fainting, weeping, with a long shudder and covering her face, she gave herself up”.

You have to see everything that fits in that last expression.

Boccaccio 's

(Cátedra, Austral, Penguin, Alianza), that book that was on a high shelf in many houses, but which you could reach if you climbed on a chair, contains many scenes that disturbed adolescence at a time when the The only way to see a naked female body was by chance or in the photos of Mama

(of which a television miniseries has been made, by the way), and a male undressing the madelman.

Some will prefer the story of Alibech's hell and the hermit determined to put his devil there, but others could not tell the story of the daughter of the sultan of Babylon, the beautiful Alatiel, shipwrecked in the land of infidels (Mallorca: today it would have been Ibiza). , and successively seduced by several men.

The first episode was the most disturbing (satisfyingly disturbing): the lady is picked up by the gentleman Pericón de Visalgo, who is now her name, dear Giovanni, who finally manages to sleep with her by getting her drunk.

And Boccaccio recounts that he entered her bedroom and she "warmer from wine than tempered by honesty", undressed in the presence of the gentleman and got into bed.

"Pericón did not hesitate to follow her but,

Turning off all the lights, he quickly lay down next to her on the other side, and taking her in his arms without any resistance, he began to enjoy himself lovingly with her.

What when she had tasted it, never having known before with what body men charge, almost regretting not having agreed to Pericón's flattery before, without waiting to be invited to such sweet nights, many times she invited herself " .

Image from the film version of 'Delta de Venus'.

In the initiation times of the

read in secret, like Alberto Moravia's novels, we also found torrid passages in unexpected books, such as

, by Mika Waltari (Plaza & Janés, 2016) who meets the courtesan at a bad time Nefernefernefer;

they make love (“she undressed and opened her arms to me, and I had the feeling that my body and my heart and my whole being were reduced to ashes”), but the memory remembers above all the girl showing off in the pond.

"She began to swim on her back swaying slightly and her breasts were sticking out of the water like two red flowers."

Ah, Egypt.

In a negligee (of bed) we can move on to something more contemporary.

by Michel Houelllebecq (Anagrama, 2004), offers several passages to choose from, with more modern sex and that style left over from telling it about I was passing by, so French.

You can argue which one is the best (the glorious encounter on the way back from Thailand? The one with the threesome with the young Cuban cleaner? The other threesome in the sauna?).

The option that we value here, by elevation (why leave it in a

if you can do a

, is that of the quartet put together by the protagonist Michel, lookalikes of the author, his girlfriend Valérie and a black jazz drummer and his wife.

In the passage, the two men give Valérie a double penetration.

“After a few seconds, I sank deeper into her.

When I was halfway there, she started moving back and forth rubbing her pubis against Jérôme's.

I no longer had anything to do;

she began to release a long and modulated moan, I sank into her to the root of her, it was like slipping down an inclined plane, she came strangely fast.

She then remained still, panting, happy ”.

In

, by John Fowles (Anagram, 2015), we also find good sex, so to speak, in the horny scenes of the protagonist Nicholas with the young twins, Julie and June, who are sent to seduce him and confuse him by the millionaire Conchis .

“I started to lose awareness of everything around us.

There was nothing but his tongue, his nudity against mine, wet hair, the gentle rhythm of his hand under the water.

In another modern novel,

, by Alissa Nutting (Anagrama, 2015), the protagonist, Celeste, is a pretty 26-year-old teacher whose erotic interest is youngsters.

Her obsession with them gets her into such trouble that you laugh at Humbert Humbert in

a story of which this book is an illuminating inversion.

The scene in which Celeste seduces her teenage student Jack in the car, which she narrates in the first person, is very intense.

“Ella Ya only required a slight oscillation of the pelvis.

I leaned over and, with a single movement, I sat on it, mated on it, closing that wet clasp that crimped every inch he could offer me.

It had happened.

Finally, it had happened."

A still from 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.

Also from a female perspective, in the classic

, by Anaïs Nin (Alliance, 2021), we have numerous episodes to remember, many with the beautiful Bijou as the protagonist —by the way, the scene in which her Basque lover shaves her pubis the He recreated the long-awaited Almudena Grandes with his young Lulú, in the girl's first sexual experience with Pablo in

—.

La Bijou de Nin visits a seer and black dancer with two friends and they improvise a trio.

“He shook his body as if he were penetrating a woman and he simulated the spasms of a man in the grip of the various shades of an orgasm.

One, two, three… The final spasm was savage, like the one of someone who gives up their life in the sexual act”.

From

by Sade, and

, by Sacher-Masoch, if you like those things, to the popular

and its sequels or such suggestive titles as

, by Noelia Amarillo, we could continue tracking passages.

But we are going to leave it here with two unexpected works: one of science fiction, and… the Bible.

The first

, by Philip José Farmer (Acervo, 1982), with the disturbing sexual contact between a man and an alien female, a

, a kind of mimetic parasitic insect that takes on a human form.

He “he” explored her body with an interest that was part sexual, part anthropological.

He was delighted and amazed at the many small differences between her and the Earth women.

There was a small appendage of skin on the roof of her mouth that may have been a rudiment of some organ whose function was lost long ago, in the realms of evolution."

And

the Bible, source of many erotic passages (not everything will be Job or Leviticus), from the

and its Shulamite to the adventures of Delilah and Jezebel, not to mention Onan, so present in these lines .

Or David's voyeurism: “He saw from the terrace of the royal house a woman who was bathing and she was very beautiful.

She did ask who she was and they told her.

'She is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah, the Jetite'.

David sent people in search of him;

she came to her house and he slept with her”.

It's not very explicit, true, but there's no denying that she's horny.