- If you're writing a SFF / thriller you can have all the gratuitous sex scenes you want but the murder and violence has to advance plot and character. If you're writing romance, the *sex scenes* need to advance the plot, and the *murder and violence* are where you go to town. simple.
- *lights cigarette* Kids complaining about "sex scenes that don't advance the plot" wouldn't have lasted three books on the SFF shelves of an average bookstore in 1993
