Women write better sex, says Martin Amis

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 21:36 EST, 10 June 2012 | UPDATED: 03:44 EST, 11 June 2012

Women are better writers when it comes to sex scenes, the novelist Martin Amis has admitted.

The 62-year-old said women were more likely to write about the reality of sex, complete with its awkward 'fiascos and no-shows', while men chose to avoid them.

He added that male authors were dogged by their fears of impotency, a weakness from which women were free, allowing them to write better about sex.

Praise: Martin Amis, pictured with his wife Isabel Fonseca, has said women write better sex scenes during an appearance at the Hay Festival

The author, who over the years has faced accusations of being a misogynist, also said women were more 'sincere' when it came to expressing emotion and had more 'song' in their writing.

Strong words: Mr Amis also dismissed David Cameron as a 'pretty-boy, privileged technocrat'

'I'd say the reason why women write better about sex which is almost impossible to write about and no one has done it very well, ever is that as a novelist you are in a God-like relation to what you create,' he said.

'You are omnipotent and the question of potency is embarrassing for men.

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