Novels about sexuality
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Are there any novels where the protagonist undergoes a development or discovery of his sexual thoughts or opinions? Not even concerning homosexuality or some weird fetishes, I'm thinking more of a young person who's biased and insecure about it coming to terms with it or having some kind of revelation.
I know that's oddly specific, I myself struggle with it and think that reading about it and getting into other people's minds will help.
>>7519987
Harry Potter
>>7519995
already read that
Lolita seems to be exactly what you are looking for.
>>7520007
isn't that what constitutes a weird fetish? (not even trolling I'm genuinely curious)
The Magic Mountain
>>7520015
have you read the translation or in original german?
you want a bildungsroman with sexual overtones.
try catcher in the rye, the torrents of spring, dublineers, steppenwolfe. sorrows of young werther.
>>7520009
All fetishes are weird.
>>7520041
p sure a fair number of fetishes are widespread enough to be considered not weird. being choked, for one.
That part-time indian one has some stuff on sexual development
One of the first short stories in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has some too
but both are about puberty
>>7520047
I'm a couple of years out of puberty and experienced, think I'm looking for something different...
>>7520046
I think he means that the word "fetish" typically has an weird or abnormal connotation.
>>7520066
maybe I intentionally said 'weird fetish'
Red and the Black, or Abbess of Castro, both by Stendhal. They arrived at a time when romance models were still being used, but they were really starting to become more psychological. Good shit.
>>7520087
can't find anything about Abbess of Castro, what's the original title?
>>7520149
L'Abbesse de Castro
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Kate Chopin's "The Awakening".
>>7520179
.__.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Story of the Eye
>>7519987
Juliette
try Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngfuckthing
Swann's way has got some young-lesbian-kissing-her-first-lover-as-her-dad's-portrait-watches scenes in the first 100 pages of the first book. Maybe read that (the first part is "Combray"). I guarantee it will interest you.
Then Again Maybe I Won't
literally 50 shades of grey
>>7519987
No idea, just clicked this for Jenna.
>>7521179
The only legitimate reaction to 50SOG is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2RmGof-C0
Hogg
>>7519987
Read something by second-wave feminists who took part in the 60s sexual revolution, if you want some cautionary tales.
The Member of the Wedding
>>7521210
Completely undertandable.
Alright I ordered "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "The Awakening" and "Demian" (unrelated to this request but I wanted to read it), further titles on my reading List are "Red and Black", "The Magic Mountain" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a young man". Thanks for your time guys, appreciate it.
my diary, tbqh
>>7519987
Intercourse by Dworkin
>>7522189
where can I grab a copy
>>7522183
now could you pls fuck off to r/books???
>>7522432
no they're retards
Daphnis and Chloe?
>>7519987
Kamasutra Tbh.
Just read Philosophy in the Bedroom u little bitch
Read Houellebecq. The Natural Elements or Whatever.
>>7521219
Seconded.
>>7519987
idk man, but my life's dream is to fill my bathtub up with my own semen, for however many years, decades, it takes, kidnap Jenna Louise Coleman, and drown her to death in my cum
>>7519987
>those slightly parted lips
I can feel the jizz boiling in my balls
>mfw i knew EXACTLY what book op needed but didn't post it
Read Robert Musil - Young Törless
Hermann Hesse - Demian
Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
>>7519987
middlesex
>>7519987
First book I Fapped to.
Also, The Mammoth Hunters for cave woman sex
i'm currently writing a smutty novella that i may just sit on and add to bump it up to novel status
>>7519987
>tfw 20th birthday is in a month and still a virgin
I should just stop expecting to lose it at all shouldn't I?
>>7522432
>le reddit meme guise amiright
>>7523416
I lost it at 20 and have had 5 partners since then (22 now) for whatever that's worth.
>a young person who's biased and insecure about it coming to terms with it or having some kind of revelation.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is pretty much exactly this, among other things.
>>7523416
10 more years and you'll have magical powers beyond your wildest dreams.
