Hello self_awareness, I have a different perspective on this. An erotic novel is written intentionally to arouse, but arousal isn't the only reason to include d

Hello self_awareness, I have a different perspective on this. An erotic novel is written intentionally to arouse, but arousal isn't the only reason to include depictions of sex, sex is a powerful part of human experience, a part of our lives in which we can reveal extremes of our personality - where we can be vulnerable and also callous. To pick another Hugo winner, the sex scenes in le guin's 'the left hand of darkness' are so memorable not because they are sexually arousing but because of they explore the irresolvable unfairness of an existence in which we are subject to powerful desires for others that we long to have reciprocated, and the impatience, disgust and fear with which we respond to the desire of others towards us that we do not reciprocate - and importantly, the role power plays in how this is negotiated. I don't think there is anything cheap about that at all.