Re: Having read some of his other books with sex, I've always been curious about this. - Edit 1
Before modification by DomA at 05/05/2014 04:26:20 PM
View original postSome of the stuff he wrote as Reagan O'Neal was full of sex, incest, you name it, whereas WoT is the complete opposite. I've always wondered why he chose to be so tame concerning sex with Wot instead of meeting somewhere safely in the middle.
In an interview he explained that to make sex scenes interesting at all in books it takes space and work to make them good enough to justify that space. In his historical novels he thought he needed them, in WOT he decided it wouldn't bring much to have sex scenes and he had most of them happen mostly off-screen. For the ones he had, he didn't lose space on erotica itself.
He then added that there's a lot of sex happening off-screen, that for instance Mat has had sex with most of the willing women he canoodled with during his travels, some older than his mother.