“Some intercourse expresses love, / Some expresses harm. / Typically, hate. / Intercourse can convey glowing lightness, /  Or unbelievable darkness. /  Typically, each…”

These are strains transcribed from the “superdoom supermoon” at the start of my new novel Venice Peach. The spectrum of sexuality has at all times been huge; the truth that all means and ends can lie inside human intercourse acts, eternally complicated. Humanity as an entire has clearly by no means been capable of absolutely wrap our heads across the myriad completely different instructions by which our sexuality can drive us. In reality, we have now seen extra hate spawn from lack of knowledge than training and evolution. This might actually be thought of yet one more manner by which we seem like “superdoomed” as a species. Nonetheless, we mustn’t ever lose hope—and attractive books that includes queer intercourse scenes will help us preserve our mojo and spirit alive and thriving. As with all topics, the keys to empathy and higher understanding can at all times be present in books—however there’s extra to those steamy intercourse scenes than initially meets the attention.

Over the previous couple of many years, we’ve undoubtedly been capable of make some progress in the direction of decreasing sexual stigmas, however now we’re getting into a stage of vicious backlash and reverse motion. It feels just like the daybreak of one of many unsexiest instances in human historical past, however it’s crucial to recollect it received’t at all times be like this. That theme is on the “darkish coronary heart” of Venice Peach. Set in Venice Seashore within the not-too-distant future, it’s a savagely playful celebration of the carnival of sexuality; an optimistic-yet-fatalistic imaginative and prescient/model of issues coming again round from the oppressive and harmful rule of a actuality TV star president. The e-book depicts a sexual renaissance of types. Everyone seems to be getting it on—or at the very least attempting. There are parts of horror, sci-fi, satire and magical realism. In direction of the tip, there’s a very graphic threesome between a virgin, an un-dead lady, and a shape-shifting canal creature named Bobobo. It’s a large melting pot of insanity to match the instances. 

This can be a record of seven different reads that wave their freak flags unabashedly and indulge far previous the same old cutoff level in literary intercourse scenes. However that doesn’t imply these books are all pleasure. Because the world we dwell in wobbles round on weary legs, a few of the most searing queer intercourse scenes written of the latest previous come coupled with darkish and ominous undertones. The “freak” therapy of “deviant” intercourse in each actual life and literature is carefully intertwined with the demons and dysfunction that hang-out the misunderstood and marginalized. There’s a variety of ache on this record, some blood and dying, in addition to undercurrents of grim warnings which will or might not be acquired. Nonetheless, it feels necessary to current a set of books who’re as daring of their “undress” as they’re of their portrayals of the previous, current and future of different intercourse and love.

I Can Repair Her by Rae Wilde (June 2025, CLASH)

One half psychedelic masterpiece, two components revenge horror, this 120-page novella sizzles so sizzling you’ll be able to learn it in a late evening’s sitting. Starting with the traditional scene by which our lead sees their ex with another person, the e-book builds on the theme of attempting to make an unhealthy, unsustainable relationship work in ways in which I’ve by no means seen executed earlier than. With crescendos that embrace a canine morphing right into a demon and sweeping tsunamis by the streets of New York, the blood and guts bits are executed simply as masterfully because the surreal. The freakiest half is on the finish, in a standalone brief piece entitled “Write My Eulogy on The Gloryhole Lavatory Stall,” by which a personality will get hooked on a really attractive and sadistic god who lives in a glory gap on 4th and Broadway. Chances are you’ll by no means have a look at glory holes in the identical manner once more, and it in some way feels unusually cathartic. 

The New Lesbian Pulp edited by Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz (August 2025, Feminist Press)

This complete quantity of multi-faceted erotic pulp fiction sizzles hotter than this summer season’s climate-change solar. This assortment will make your mind break in a great way, and lots of of those brief tales are so vivid and interesting that you simply’ll be indignant they aren’t longer. The one that may actually knock your undergarments off is “Cottonmouth” by Ella Boureau, a story of kissing cousins that turns into an sudden threesome… I received’t spoil the shock third, however that is by far the closest scene I’ve discovered to the one in my very own Venice Peach that impressed this record and is motive alone to buy this buffet of gritty, gutsy, bloody, and lusty sapphic brief tales. 

Silicone God by Victoria Brooks 

Silicone God is a sizzling and heavy damaged love letter to a previous which will by no means be reckoned with; a feverish, frenzied, fragmented enjoyable home of the highlights and horrors of the sex-obsessed. We’re thrown into the darkish and twisted world of concurrently being each a mistress and a queer attempting to return out. The temper sticks to you, as issues with tentacles are likely to do, wrapping round your insides and squeezing tight. In the event you’re into sea creatures—particularly tentacle-infused intercourse scenes—and phallic mushrooms, and silicone strap-ons that tackle their very own life, this e-book is totally for you. The primary character, Shea, is a serial mistress from the longer term, a world by which there are various mistresses and their mission is taken into account sacred. Stuffed with thriller and sexual prowess, Shea is a personality we by no means absolutely get a grip on—and that’s precisely the purpose. Too slippery for anybody style, this can be a vivid portrait of a seductive, silicone-based future.  

Fragrance & Ache by Anna Dorn  

This e-book reads alongside the strains of a queer literary model of Bojack Horseman, and as somebody who can declare that present as a reference for my very own work, this e-book was without delay beloved to me. A contemporary story of an ungainly and well-known “femme fatale sort” Eagle Rock-based lesbian novelist named Astrid Dahl—not associated to Roald—this scent-drenched novel’s prime notes are satire, edge, and darkness. Astrid was each writing and partying on her personal trademark drug cocktail she coyly calls the “Patricia Highsmith,” however now she is attempting (and failing) to chop again after being “cancelled” attributable to a misunderstood interview by which she claimed she doesn’t “vibe with dykes.” Astrid is a singularly authentic but completely relatable LA character: self-deprecating, self-obsessed, and witty as hell. She falls right into a tumultuous poisonous relationship with a crimson flag “metallic orchid-smelling” lady named Ivy from her Zoom writing group whereas concurrently denying falling in love together with her older, cunning artist neighbor who has an unlucky proclivity for patchouli. Many scorching intercourse scenes to be discovered right here, however the hottest is one by which—are we stunned?—fragrance makes it into the mattress. 

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata 

Sayaka Murata’s work has been making a variety of lists currently, and it’s completely effectively deserved. Vanishing World will hang-out you as a lot as it’ll make you giggle. A intelligent and prophetic mixture of Handmaid’s Story meets Twilight Zone, Murata paints a future centered across the disintegration of household as a societal idea. Almost all pregnancies are by synthetic insemination, society calls intercourse between married companions “incest,” and people who find themselves not asexual primarily fall in love with fictional/manga characters. The intercourse scenes on this e-book are weird, distinctive, and appear to spell superdoom in their very own queer methods: The primary character Amane has intercourse with herself whereas imagining it to be precise intercourse with the anime characters she’s obsessive about. She additionally initiates unusual and clumsy intercourse with a number of virgin males as a result of “precise intercourse” is a “relic.” Because the world she lives in turns into extra insistent on disposing of all sexual urges, Amane more and more loses sight of her personal needs, culminating in her having probably the most darkish and socially deviant type of intercourse on the finish of the e-book, in a climactic tone a lot darker than that which the e-book started. Peppered with unbelievable one-liners reminiscent of, “Normality is the creepiest insanity there’s…” and, “Is there any such factor as a mind that hasn’t been brainwashed?” I’ll positively be studying the whole lot else obtainable from Murata.

Paul Takes the Type of a Mortal Woman by Andrea Lawlor 

This is among the most actually kaleidoscopic sex-fueled books on the market. That includes a fantastic-yet-realistic human protagonist who can morph genders together with intercourse organs upon command, we observe Paul everywhere in the nation, propelled by his seemingly-unquenchable lust for almost everybody. Paul’s a real participant whose sexual preferences stretch throughout each coloration of the proverbial rainbow, even bragging at one level about possessing the ability of with the ability to discover anybody enticing. “I’m not a person,” Paul says when in dialogue with a homosexual roommate in San Francisco, heartbroken from the throws of an intense lesbian relationship by which he turned into feminine kind for nearly a 12 months in efforts to make it work. And it’s true that Paul doesn’t know the best way to determine. We really feel for Paul, unable to find himself with out higher vocabulary, because it was within the nineties. There are many wild intercourse scenes in right here, however probably the most standout is when Paul is in his feminine kind and makes use of a strap-on as a prime for the primary time, a real gender-bender second. 

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper 

Ending this record with an enormous ol’ bang, we have now The Sluts—a e-book not for the fragile—however then, none of Dennis Cooper’s work is. Labeled “the final literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction” by Bret Easton Ellis, Cooper’s capacity to shock and compel you with a window into the savage hearts of attractive, dysfunctional, and deranged males is at giant right here. Plunging instantly into the storyline with a web-based assessment of a doubtlessly underage twink escort recognized solely as “Brad,” we worry for Brad however by no means count on simply how insane it’ll get for him. The novel consists totally of web-based evaluations, dialogue teams, cellphone name transcripts, and emails centering round this deep, darkish plotline set within the early days of the web. The Sluts is a story of 1 escort turning into the middle of vicious fantasies, lies, projections, and exploitation. The freakiest intercourse scenes are those for snuff movies—and should trigger extra repulsion than enchantment.