All about sex

Chapter 16 and 17 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor suggest that life is all about the sex... except sex. While Thomas C. Foster started off chapter 17 demanding the reader to write a sex scene, I wondered... How does one write such a thing? But lets go back a little. In chapter 16, Foster suggests that curtains blowing in the wind, bowls, trains, and even keys are symbolic of sexual intercourse. On page 136, Foster mentions the Grail Legends in the twentieth century. A knight is on a quest for a chalice... according to Foster, the chalice is symbolic of female sexuality: the empty vessel waiting to be filled. This then leads us to realize that the message trying to be conveyed here is fertility. So, writing a sex scene can be as subtle as adding curtains blowing in the wind, as does in The Maltese Falcon (1941), or as simplistic as adding keys being put in a bowl. Although, adding violent wrestling could be done, too. Our generation has grown up in a world that is filled with sex. Both in the media and society. The outfits and music videos of Lady Gaga tell us that this is the ideal way to be... Lines like "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" (Love Game.) So, Like Foster mentions on page 151, you cant really write about modern life without writing about sex... it is almost impossible to skip.