Julia Rachel Barrett's Blog, page 136

Dear Author's Poll – Do you skim/skip sex scenes?

This is an excellent question!

34% of her respondents claimed they do indeed skim or skip sex scenes.  If you extrapolate the percentage to the general romance reading public, this is a significant number of readers.  You can check out the post for yourself:

http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/

Reasons given were:  too gross, too long, too boring, too acrobatic, too gratuitous, too unbelievable.

I have to admit I'm occasionally guilty of skimming or skipping.  I recently purchased several books –...