When Sex Scenes Go Terribly Wrong

Not too long ago, Katiebabs sent an email to a bunch of regular romance bloggers talking about Sarah McCarty's most recent book, Sam's Creed. It seems there was a scene in the book where the hero and heroine engaged in some backdoor lovin'...on horseback. That began a huge round robin about the feasibility of that, and how it would work, and of course, why on Earth one couldn't wait until they got off the horse to do a little what-what-in-the-butt.

I just finished reading Joey W. Hill's A Mermaid's Kiss. I *LOVED* her Vampire Queen series. It's dark and lush and extremely erotic without being campy at all. So I jumped at the chance to read and review A Mermaid's Kiss, which I will do for RNTV. But I very much doubt that I'll talk about this issue, so I'm posting here.

I read a ton of paranormal romance. And I love shape-shifters. But I have one hard and fast rule. It's this, you can have sex both in human form, you can have sex both in were form. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT have sex one in human form, one in were form. No, no, no, no, no. It's just NOT ok. Ever. Kate Douglas, who writes the Wolf Tales books often uses the one in were, one in human form, which just gets my squick factor going in a HUGE way.


And now apparently, so does Joey Hill. A Mermaid's Kiss is about an angel and a mermaid. Jacob (the angel) has been injured in battle and one of his wings severed from his body. Anna, a mermaid, rescues Jacob when he falls into the sea after his injury. They fall in love. His wing reattaches, they are sent on a quest to see a shaman who can fully heal Jacob's wing. And so they set out on land to get the shaman, who is in the Mojave desert. So, Anna takes human form, Jacob is in human form from sunup to sundown. When they first hit land, they go to a small cabin that Anna owns, there she shifts to mermaid form for him and he stays human...and they do it.

Now, I'm sorry. That's fish sex. And that's just inappropriate and wrong. Deeply wrong. She's a FISH, people! Apparently that makes her much tighter. And, that's supposed to be good. And possibly hot.

And then, later in the story, it comes out that Anna can also change into a fairy form. Very small, with wings. And after frolicking in the woods with Jacob in angel form and her in fairy form...they do it again. Well...not exactly, but they have a sexual encounter with her pint sized and him regular sized. There were pinkies and teeth and licking involved.

And again, I threw up a little in the back of my mouth.

Why? Why is this necessary? Hill is a tremendous writer, and actually the story was very, very interesting without all of the inappropriate sexin'. Do people find this hot? And, who are they exactly??

Ick.