Sex Scenes

I hate writing sex scenes! Reading them...no problem. Writing them...downright painful. After all, what would your mother think if she knew what you were up to? My sex scenes are about as romantic as a How To Manual.
In an effort to improve my writing in this area, I've been reading Angela Knight's Passionate Ink, a Guide to Writing Erotic Romance. (Special thanks to fellow spankster, Angie, for loaning me her signed copy---I promise I'll return it soon.) I highly recommend this book. Ms. Knight not only gives excellent advise on crafting erotic scenes, but on many other aspects of writing and publishing a novel.
One of the best tips is to avoid using silly euphanisms for body parts. This will pull the reader right out of the story...and who wants to be pulled out in the middle of a love scene? Current trends are to just tell it like it is, but some authors still go to extreme lengths to avoid using certain words.
The result: Purple Prose. Purple prose by definition according to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary is writing that calls attention to itself because of its obvious use of certain effects, as exaggerated sentiment or pathos, esp. in an attempt to enlist or manipulate the reader's sympathies.
For some really great examples of this go to http://www.debstover.com/purple.html
Hillarious!
Okay. I'll admit to using one of the phrases on the list. Guess which one and I'll give you chocolate. In the meantime, it's back to writing my smokin' hot scene. Insert tab Y into slot X...