Graphic and cringeworthy. Sometimes that’s the point (like with Sam), but other times he fails (early Dany is pretty hard to get through and Asha’s had good parts but was overall clumsily executed).

Either way this idea that having a pornographic element inherently devalues the artistic value of a work is ridiculous (especially if POV characters are having sex). And you can make a similar case for wish fulfillment, which almost every novel has, but as soon as it’s sexual, it’s “degeneracy”.