That it’s sex-with-voracious-ectoplasm, sex-with-greedily-clutched-skulls, sex-with-open-wounds, sex-while-being-stabbed-numerous-times, sex-during-evisceration, sex-with-mom, sex-with-dad, sex-with-dad-and-mom-who-have-somehow-become-the-same-creature, sex-with-animals, sex-with-corpses, sex-with-holes-developed-in-ones-own-body and being-raped-by-slavering-demons kind of thing that gets most people a bit unruffled. It’s the fact that it’s long-spiked-tentacle-sodomy. I would submit that homosexual activity has very little to do with Clive’s particular shock demographic-sodomy is par for the course in just about any of his novels. Thanx!Ĭlick to expand.I respectfully disagree.

What DOES offend me, however, is when an author just plain opens the floodgates of sleaze and absolutely fills his book up with bizarre sex acts for no apparent reason and turns it into utter porno, and when he just plain builds his story around bizarre sex.Īny input would be dearly appreciated.

This doesn't bother or offend me at all, in my opinion, this is the right way to do it. You see, generally, in almost all the sci-fi/fantasy/horror novels I've heard of, sexual scenes and situations are put in the novels either because they fit the storyline, or they're put in there to enhance the relationship/passion between two characters. I'm wondering this because I've never read his books and I would like to know. However, I'm wondering, just how gross is Clive Barker. Now that to me sounds pretty darn sick, but it doesn't shock or offend me all that much, because pretty much I've seen/heard of every gross sex act that's out there, so nothing really surprises me that much. Quite a while back on this thread, I read a post by a dude who said he was kind of disgusted with Clive Barker becausein one scene from the book Imajica, it showed (pardon me if my language is a bit too blunt here) one guy sucking on this wierd being's razor-sharp, pointed dingle dangle and the being took its dingle dangle and stabbed him through the head with it.

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