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I'm Sex Shy

 More recently I read the book 'It Ends With Us'. I found the title intriguing, the blurb simple and not at all attention seeking. Like someone comfortable in its own skin, the book had no glamorous binding or attractive coverpage. I picked it for precisely these reasons. I hate books that shout out loud saying, 'Babes, come buy me!' I like to pursue the lost in oblivion kind of people and books. Now this book started off on a good note and then it took me on a boring ride into the sexual encounters of the protagonist. Gosh!! I just wrote the dreaded S word. So dreaded is it that my auto-correct too writes Sequel if I type Sexual. Boss, I'm a shy Indian who doesn't even whisper the S word forget saying out loud except in the biology class and gender inquisitive government forms. When I talk of love though it has a physical attraction to it, certainly it doesn't end in pushing down my lover's pants the moment he parks into the garage or we find a lonely s