The Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, organised by The Literary Review, is an annual celebration of the worst descriptions of sex in modern fiction. Here is a taste of the shortlisted scenes. This stuff is, as you would expect, NSFW.
Against Nature, by Tomas Espedal.
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Before, After, During, by Richard Bausch.
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Book of Numbers, by Joshua Cohen.
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The Martini Shot, by George Pelecanos.
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