# Literary characters you crave sexually **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322 "2003-08-29T00:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/1 "2003-08-29T00:11:50Z")
Forget the characters you’ve seen on TV or in movies, okay? Anyone can fall in love with Ava Gardner. What literary characters have you wanted to have sex with based solely on what you read in the books? Dejah Thoris? Candy Christian? The Monkey (_Portnoy’s Cpmplaint_)? Or if it’s dudes you crave… Heathcliff? Victor Frankenstein? Natty Bumppo? Who gives you an unnatural attachment to your librtary card? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/2 "2003-08-29T00:13:39Z")
**Angua** ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/3 "2003-08-29T00:16:52Z")
Alex from _A Clockwork Orange_. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/4 "2003-08-29T04:55:40Z")
Hester Prynne from _The Scarlet Letter_ The main character (I forget her name) from _Rebecca_. Estella from _Great Expectations_ ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/5 "2003-08-29T05:30:50Z")
Actually, **Tangent** , the narrator’s name in _Rebecca_ is never used. I didn’t notice this until the second time I’d read it; you only know it’s an unusual name because she says she’s impressed Maxim spelled it right, even though it’s fairly uncommon. But she never says what it is. Good one though…whatever her name is, she can be on my list, too. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/6 "2003-08-29T05:35:58Z")
Remus Lupin. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/7 "2003-08-29T05:50:56Z")
Conor Larkin ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/8 "2003-08-29T06:36:51Z")
Vina Aspara. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/9 "2003-08-29T09:36:26Z")
Roland of Gilead ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/10 "2003-08-29T10:56:38Z")
Jane Eyre ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/11 "2003-08-29T11:23:25Z")
The protagonist from Harold Robbins’ “The Pirate”. There’s a scene in which he is having sex with some concubines or something like that, and one of them sticks her finger in his rectum and manipulates his prostate, and he has a mind-blowing orgasm. 🙂 That turned me on so bad, especially because I was 13 or so at the time the book came out. ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/12 "2003-08-29T11:28:57Z")
Then there’s also the protagonist from Roger Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber. Boris Vallejo did the cover art for the book jacket, so inspired me to think of him as lean, muscular and healthy. Or Biff, from Piers Anthony’s A Spell for Chameleon. Again, the cover art makes him seem so fit, blond and, I don’t know, California. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/13 "2003-08-29T11:48:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\ ***Angua** \*\* Pratchett’s Angua? Or the SD’s Angua? 😉 Now, literary characters to have sex with - Oberon from Midsummer Night’s Dream, and some of the male characters in Anne McCaffery’s Crystal Singer series - yum. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/14 "2003-08-29T12:01:46Z")
Have sex with literary characters? But wouldn’t the pages get all sticky? ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/15 "2003-08-29T12:32:53Z")
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/16 "2003-08-29T14:51:13Z")
Bonanza Jellybean. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/17 "2003-08-29T16:51:09Z")
Kitty Butler from Tipping The Velvet ---
**Author:** ![jkirkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/18 "2003-08-29T17:26:46Z")
Friday from Heinlein’s “Friday” Eowyn ---
**Author:** ![keeper0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@keeper0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeper0)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/19 "2003-08-29T18:22:59Z")
From **Lobsang** > [@](#): > > Angua She’s pretty good, but Susan Sto Helit is the one get my juices flowing. ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322/20 "2003-08-29T18:26:28Z")
I’ll second Roland of Gilead. Also Steerpike. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-characters-you-crave-sexually/198322.md?page=2)