I do not like reading 'literary' novels (it's all genre fiction at Chez Gilbert) because of bullshit like this. Yuck, how do you novel readers stand such crap? I was thinking of reading the new Michel Faber (even though Under the Skin was dull) but now? No way Jose. I am boycotting The Corrections forever because I read a wee excerpt of it that was sexually stupid (well, then there's the Oprah kerfluffle but, well, that's for another time pals!) And don't get me started on the utter fucking tripe of Murakami's Teenage Girls Want to Go Down on You!!! or whatever the hell it's called.
I'd rather read pornographic lit, because even though it's predictable and tired the sex is not so damn laughable as 'proper' highbrow literature. Hell, even VC Andrews isn't as annoying, and her stuff (and 'her' stuff) is horrible!