Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Hello!

Recently we discussed how book readers seem to require condoms in love scenes more than moviegoers. I watch my fair share of R-rated TV and movies, and I recall very few scenes where a passionate lovemaking session was interrupted with a public service announcement by the folks on the screen. “Hey, kids, remember: no glove, no love!”

Of course, I only had the issue at all because my new book has a lot of sex – and no condom usage.

It didn’t occur to me, because I was writing itso I was focusing on the passion, the POV, the humor (yes, it was a funny sex scene), the flow, the pace… you know, writer stuff. Some of the other things I didn’t focus on: the color of the bed sheets, whether he had bad breath from lunch, if she had showered recently. (It was set in Italy…