When did you notice a sexy change in genre books?S  This is
where I admit some delinquency in my reading list. Although I
work for a science fiction and fantasy site, I don't do too much
fantasy reading. So it was only recently when I looked up from
my Lord of the Rings copies and noticed that things had gotten
hotter.  Today we have sexy vampires in The Southern Vampire
Mysteries and sexy royals in A Game of Thrones and even sexy
supernatural creatures in, shall we say, carefully repressed
books like Twilight. Although I don't object to any of it, I
feel very out-of-the-loop when I admit that well into adulthood,
it hadn't occurred to me that fantasy books could include a lot
of sex in them. Don't blame me. I cut my teeth on CS Lewis and
JRR Tolkien, the high-fantasy stuff that could add as much blood
as it wished, but didn't get particularly steamy. As I recall,
the Narnians didn't do much more than dance and hold hands,
while the hottest thing anyone ever did in a Tolkien book was
sing interminably-long so