Bad Sex Award Conferred

on Tom Wolfe, for I Am Charlotte Simmons. According to the Reuters piece, Wolfe nabbed the award for this passage.

Slither slither slither slither went the tongue,” one of his winning sentences begins.

“But the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns — oh God, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest — no, the hand was cupping her entire right — Now!”

And what could be sexier than otorhinolaryngological caverns?