I'm not even talking about specific sex scenes, although there seems more of that too. But it seems that so much of his later writing is about sex: references to sex, comparisons to sex. Sometimes it takes almost ridiculous proportions. For example, in Doctor Sleep the True Knot are watching porn movies to throw Abra off-balance with the images - the idea is quite absurd.
And this from a writer about whom his colleagues once joked that he hadn't discovered sex yet.
Is it for commercial reasons? Does he just have a bigger interest in it now?
Often it adds little for me. I know Gerald's Game is about sex, but there it actually constitutes the very plot. But a lot of times it feels to me that he includes it for very little specific purpose. Not that I'm offended by it at all, but other writers (Barker for example) often use sex in a more original way - it gets added less just for the sake of it.
Maybe if SK had done it from the very beginning I wouldn't notice it so much, but it seems to have increased so much over time.
And this from a writer about whom his colleagues once joked that he hadn't discovered sex yet.
Is it for commercial reasons? Does he just have a bigger interest in it now?
Often it adds little for me. I know Gerald's Game is about sex, but there it actually constitutes the very plot. But a lot of times it feels to me that he includes it for very little specific purpose. Not that I'm offended by it at all, but other writers (Barker for example) often use sex in a more original way - it gets added less just for the sake of it.
Maybe if SK had done it from the very beginning I wouldn't notice it so much, but it seems to have increased so much over time.