What would a six-hundred-page romance story be without sex? Well, it would be Twilight, but that's beside the point. We've got an adult romance on our hands with this book, and Diana Gabaldon packs Outlander's pages full of steamy scenes. There's so much sex in Outlander, we'd forgive you if you temporarily thought you were reading something dirty, like a Judy Blume novel.
Diana Gabaldon makes sex a critical part of almost everything. It's a way of expressing love; it's a way of exercising power; it's even a way of destroying something. Who knew three little letters could be so complicated?
Questions About Sex
- Is the sex in Outlander ever gratuitous?
- Why is sex required to make Jamie and Claire's marriage official? Why can't they just, ahem, fake it?
- How does Outlander show the ways in which sex can be healing? Or the ways it can be damaging?
- Are attitudes to sex in the 18th century different from the attitudes in the 1940s? If so, how?