It’s ironic that so many people in this thread that are saying a change like this would be good, are at the same time justifying their dislike of sex scenes by saying they are often unimportant to the plot or character development. Making sex scenes (or any scene in the book) a by default optional side story with special instructions in the book to skip would guarantee that they contain nothing of real import to the story.
If you don’t like sex scenes that’s fine, there’s lots of content I don’t enjoy in books, sometimes I push through and sometimes I just choose to read other stuff. Asking for sex specifically to be relegated, contained within an easily skippable module (one that brings any reader out of the story with a meta acknowledgement of what is about to happen and how to avoid it) inside every book is silly. It would inevitably warp the medium. You already have the choice, when you aren’t liking what’s in a book, put it down.
It’s ironic that so many people in this thread that are saying a change like this would be good, are at the same time justifying their dislike of sex scenes by saying they are often unimportant to the plot or character development. Making sex scenes (or any scene in the book) a by default optional side story with special instructions in the book to skip would guarantee that they contain nothing of real import to the story.
If you don’t like sex scenes that’s fine, there’s lots of content I don’t enjoy in books, sometimes I push through and sometimes I just choose to read other stuff. Asking for sex specifically to be relegated, contained within an easily skippable module (one that brings any reader out of the story with a meta acknowledgement of what is about to happen and how to avoid it) inside every book is silly. It would inevitably warp the medium. You already have the choice, when you aren’t liking what’s in a book, put it down.