Literary agent Rachelle Gardner posted a question on her blog about books that her readers would be embarrassed to admit they read/loved. Since Gardner specializes in Christian books, many of her readers are Christian. And it's interesting to see that the main thing that embarrasses them is sex. They're embarrassed to admit they've enjoyed books that contained sex.
But not books that are horrors, or violent, or gory. So as people have pointed out before, and my brother recently brought up: Why are we so much more shocked by sex (in movies, in books) than by violence? Why is much of North American society more hung up on a potentially-life-giving act, than on a life-taking one? This seems to be a North American thing--or maybe countries colonized by Britain. Even ex-French-colony-Quebec is more cool about nudity.
The only area where perhaps this isn't true is in music. There's a lot more tolerance for "Let's Get It On" and "Sexual Healing" than for, say, gangster rap.
Where would I be without you?
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