「ハリウッド・セックス」？

Monique Roffey*1 “Real sex isn't hard to write about, Martin Amis” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/12/real-sex-martin-amis

マーティン・エイミスがセックスを描くのは女性作家の方が向いていると発言したこと*2を承けて。彼女はエイミスに基本的には賛成だと言うが、エイミスが女性には「不能（impotency）」への不安がないと言っていることに反論している。女性にも「不能」への不安はあるという。彼女が挙げているのは挿入だけでオーガスムを達成できないという不安・不満なのだが、それと、男性にとっての堅くならない・勃たないという不安が果たして等価なものなのかどうかはわからない。それはともかくとして、彼女は自らの20代と40代における性経験を語る；

In my 20s, I wasn't a good lover – and never met men my age who were good lovers either. We were all highly sexed, but mostly immature. Back then, sex was disappointing. Men seemed to enjoy having sex with me, but I didn't "show up". My body was a labyrinth of secret crevices and places hidden to me, let alone to my lovers. How did I get to have orgasms like Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 Weeks – rolling, thunderous full-bodied spiritual highs? Years went by, and I felt let down. I wasn't having the sex I thought I was entitled to, the sex modelled by Hollywood.

In my 40s I assigned myself to tantric sex school, took lessons from gifted body workers and tantric masseurs and finally discovered the wondrous variety of orgasms my body had to offer. All women possess a clitoris, g-spot, vagina and anus – all can produce much sexual ecstasy. Only now do I get the sex I dreamed of, and yet it's nothing like Hollywood sex. Hands-on skill, experience and a lot of showing, asking and giving are part of it, as well as very intimate verbal communication. Good sex is harder to get than I thought – and yet worth all the fuss.

『9.5週間』が典型的な「ハリウッド･セックス」なのかどうかはわからないけれど、性経験を自らの身体の（再）発見だとするのは興味深い。

ナイン・ハーフ [DVD]

そして、セックスのエクリチュールを巡って；

Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time. Writing about the emotional complexities involved when, again and again, we copulate with only one other person over many years is rich material for fiction. The boredom, fatigue and frustration, and the joy, relief and loving pleasure shared in this long-haul journey is worth writing about. Sex can either be a non-verbal language that smoothes the other jagged edges, or the biggest edge between a couple. For this kind of up-close realism, I believe those who are well beyond vanilla land are currently leading the way, writing and blogging about sex online.

長年連れ添ったカップルの性生活にこそ文学的な可能性がある。結論として、

Sex isn't hard to write about. Real sex is just like real anything else: complicated, good, bad and much in between. Sex is exactly the kind of gnarly part of life novelists should tackle. It deserves the same realism, the same attention to detail as writing about any other aspect of life.

ところで、小説はともかくとして漫画について言えば、男性漫画家の作品からエロさを感じたことは殆どない。最近なくなった畑中純*3の『まんだら屋の良太』などはエロとはいっても、古典落語以来の伝統に立つ〈艶笑譚〉というべきものであり、あくまでも上半身で感動するものであり、下半身で感動するものではないだろう。
さて、”Quiz: were these sex scenes written by a man or a woman?”というのもありますね*4。

See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101201/1291132383 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101204/1291439855 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101206/1291659249

*1:http://www.moniqueroffey.co.uk/

*2:See Anita Singh “Hay Festival 2012: Martin Amis: women are better at writing about sex” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9323166/Hay-Festival-2012-Martin-Amis-women-are-better-at-writing-about-sex.html

*3:See http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120614/1339636821

*4:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2012/jun/12/quiz-sex-scenes-man-woman