The morality of an author can never be judged by the puritanical or otherwise written language. Their morality should, however, be taken into account through the moving and everlasting stories and write-ups they write. Since Aristotle's time, the debate has lived on that an author should not write immoral content. And authors have rebelled against the principle by breaching the line time and again and that too, deliberately.
Sanskrit literature has done it way back in ancient times. Kalidas' Meghdootam is a living example that contains several erotic scenes which might question the claims of today's so-called moralists. Yet, it is considered a work of art, accepted even by some of the moralists. Indian mythology has innumerable details that tell of how the gods and demigods had sexual conflicts resulting in wars and turn of great events. Indra, the king of devtas, used every trick to cheat his enemies. He was a womanizer too. His royal court up in the clouds had thousands of Upsaras who danced for him amorously. He had sex with rishi's wivies by duping them. Thus, the tradition of morality is just a fake piece to hide oneself in today's world.
The creative freedom requires this. We should rather leave it to the discretion of the reader. If the story which has erotic scenes is able to win critical acclaim and as well as reader response, it has certainly something which should have been written. So, an author's morality should not be judged by the erotic scenes he/she writes.
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