Author Wolfe wins 'bad sex' prize US author Tom Wolfe has been given the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for awkward descriptions of intimate encounters in his novel I am Charlotte Simmons. Wolfe, 74, whose Bonfire of the Vanities epitomised 1980s power and excess, was nominated for three passages in his latest publication. One included the line: "...moan moan moan moan moan..." The prize is awarded each year for "crude, tasteless" sexual depictions in published literature. It is awarded by Literary Review magazine in an attempt to discourage authors from writing such accounts. In I am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe steps into the shoes of a young, sheltered female student getting to grips with sex and hedonism on campus. One of his winning passages is: "Slither slither slither slither went the tongue, but the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns. Oh God, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest no, the hand was cupping her entire right - Now! She must say 'No, Hoyt' and talk to him like a dog.. " I am Charlotte Simmons is the 14th book from Wolfe, who came to the fore in the 1960s with "gonzo" journalism accounts such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Will Self, Julian Fellowes, Andre Brink and Wendy Perriam were among those nominated for the award this year. Perriam has now been nominated four times and won in 2002. AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks and Melvyn Bragg are among the other winners in the award's 12-year history.

Slither slither slither? Methinks the paragraph quoted was not really meant to be erotic at all. But it's not an award about erotica, just about the portrayal of a sex act in a tacky way. There are more award winners here and a selection of excerpts from past nominees here.

'Yes!' she whispered back. 'Dorsal subluxation . . . flexion deformity of the first metatarsal . . . '

Indeed!

o_O "moan moan moan moan moan?" O_o Interesting...word skills there. In some places he put the same word over and over again, and in others he uses obscure "big" words. Seems to me that this prize isn't discouraging enough. Maybe if they employed tazers?

There's one linked on the BBC news website, where I got the quoted article from, about a past winner by an Indian author whose winning scene compared the sex act to a volkswagen beetle. And a bugatti. I must read that one again, it was rather fun

I wondered when I read those passages if this person had actually been in a relationship with an honest person? Maybe their publisher forgot to read the book and edit it?

LOL!! Darn it where's Da Buffster when I need her?..Im still trying to recall, a similar article, on a site we used to be on, about the previous winner of this award..where he scaled her moutain, and and she pitched his tent.. amazing how people use their interests as an analogy to sex. Hmm..lets see.... Moan, moan moan, went the devil star delighted by the task of osculating,his soaring phoenix. He gripped the sides of the bed, face strained with the effort of not going Hintori. alas it was to late, "Biiiiiird Go!" He rasped out.. Oh moan moan moan... Hell, I needed a good giggle... Hey this is fun!.. C'mon, sure there's someone who can rise the to challenge (pardon da pun *snickergiggle*) who can do worse?...Id like to see who can beat the worse Gatch Sex scene!!