The bestselling author says she wants to write a lesbian romp, but is that really what her readers want? After all, lesbians don’t have sex in the same places straight women do, like around horses or money
Jilly Cooper OBE has just noticed lesbians. Talking to an audience at the Cheltenham literary festival, the 78-year-old bestselling author revealed that she “wouldn’t mind” writing her very first lesbian sex scene, and that she’d been thinking about writing passionate romps between women as “there seems to be a lot of it about now”.
I don’t know if there were any lesbians in the audience, or if they were asked whether they “minded” if Jilly Cooper OBE wrote one or not, or, indeed, if anyone pointed out to her that the earliest known mention of “it” in surviving historical documents is in the Code of Hammurabi, a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754BC, and that there has probably been a lot of “it” about for around 200,000 years now, and where the hell had she been, but if Jilly Cooper OBE does decide to write about lesbian sex as realistically as she writes about heterosexual sex, it will be a blessed relief to lesbians all over the world, I’m quite sure of that.
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