He talks about watching his mother’s maid have sex with a brawny blacksmith. This entire chapter is dedicated to Camille’s sexual history. You know that old saying: Too many perverts spoil the wet dream. I had to keep reminding myself this book had multiple authors.
Rating: ?, because this chapter is as gross as it is raunchy. It ends when Camille’s mom wakes him up to talk about his crush. He fantasizes that Teleny magically turns into his sister, which instigates a prolonged incest scene. Chapter IIĬamille is still so lovesick after meeting Teleny that he goes home to have an erotic fever dream, as one does. Rating: ??, for the slow burn and old-fashioned barebacking. In my fit of nervousness, I had pulled off both my gloves so that I now put my bare hand into his.” The pianist stretched forth his ungloved hand. Sadly, the hottest thing that happens is a handshake. I love a stunt queen, and I can already tell we’re in for some drama with this one. He gets so turned on he describes it as painful and has to run out of the theater to have a panic attack. Our main character, an emo Victorian guy named Camille, sees a sexy musician named Teleny for the first time at a concert and falls madly in love. After all, who doesn’t like a filthy book? So, I got a copy and ranked each chapter’s raunchiness on a scale of 1 to 5 eggplant emojis. When I first heard this story, my curiosity got the better of me. To this day, Teleny is printed with attribution to Wilde. Hirsch went on to publish his own printing of the book in 1934, in which he reaffirmed his story that Wilde was a collaborator. “It was evident to me that several writers of unequal literary merit had collaborated in this anonymous but profoundly interesting work,” he wrote. "If it was a democracy, then Joffrey would have died much earlier than he did.Hulton Archive/Getty Images From left: Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.įinally, Hirsch read the first draft of the text. If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them."Īfter all, he concluded, storytelling "is not a democracy", he said. "I don't pretend to understand this," he added, in comments reported by The Guardian.īut he promised: "I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. "I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women." He also said readers should not rule out man-on-man action in the series’ remaining novels. "A television show doesn't have those limitations," he told the audience at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival. As none of those characters are gay, there have been no explicit gay sex scenes in the Winterfell novels to date.īut in HBO's television adaptation, the approach could be different, he suggested. Responding to a question at a book festival, the author explained that his fantasy novels are narrated through "viewpoint" characters. Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin has revealed why there are no gay sex scenes in his bestselling novel series.