Homosexuality in Modern Fiction

Prep would be the second book I have picked up, which had great reviews, which features homosexual relationships. The first one was Swordspoint.

I find a great deal of adult fiction, as I’ve complained before in another thread, has raunchy cheap sex scenes. Look, if its a NECESSARY part of the story, I can understand. I mean, you can’t have Vanilla Sky without the sex. But, many times, it just seems added-on. Like the plot has nothing to do with the sex in the first place.

What I’ve noticed is that recently, there have been an increased number of fiction novels on homosexual relationships. You know, I’m sorry, but when I read a good fiction book, I like to imagine myself in the character’s shoes. I CANNOT imagine myself as a 14 year old falling in love with another girl at school. Moreover, its not natural, yet these books insist that this is just “natural love”. Please, can they just shove their bullcrap down someone else’s throat?

  1. This literature is influential, and since its not censored, I am wondering if homosexual literature is encouraging people to experiment with homosexual relationships?

  2. Swordspoint, I found in the young adults section at my local library. Is homosexual literature appropriate for non-adults?

  3. Should not these books be marked as homosexual literature, so that those of us who want to read something non-homosexual, be easily able to pick out books we are comfortable with?

I don’t know - I don’t think most people are homosexual, but it seems like in America, homosexual culture is being promoted more than heterosexual culture.