‘Sex sells” is a truism few would dispute—and it holds true for the successful career of the Irish literary star Sally Rooney who has remarked that in her work, “the driver is erotic tension or desire.” Her novels are typically categorized as realist romantic comedies that turn around modified marriage plots, but as she says, it is the erotic that motivates her characters. Indeed, to a degree not widely remarked upon, nothing of any real consequence happens in a Rooney novel except sex, and the turmoil leading up to and following its consummation. But what kind of sex?
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