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Alaa Al Aswany on Writing About Sex

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Alaa Al Aswany examines the human body.

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al Aswany: I think that was a vision of literature, for sex, all the time. I don't think I’m a very exceptional case because simply, in our daily life, we approach sex either as a pleasure or as a taboo. For literature, sex, I would say even, I don’t like very much the term sex. I would say the physical relation, right? And the physical relation between two partners in literature means much more because you need sex not only for pleasure. Sometimes you need to perform a physical relation with your partner because you are scared or because you are desperate or because you ...