I agree. There are way too many scenes since book 6 that have creepy 'rape-overtones' (?). I've noticed that. I guess many people don't notice because usually (now, since NiC) it is the men who sometimes are almost forced to have sex. Many women (and men) simply don't realize it that easily when the situation is reversed and it's men instead of women.
Nonconsensual sex is a recurrent fantasy, but I disagree on the repressed. I think many people (mostly women) have such fantasies and not all of them are repressed. Also I wouldn't say 'nonconsensual', I'd call it 'dubious consent'; because in the AB books the sex always begins with somewhat unwilling partners but 20 pages later they're all happily having sex (because of the big plot line that can generate the excuses for that much sex... the ardUer). *blinks* Does that make any sense? ^___^;;
Oh yeah, I totally agree. LKH will never admit she didn't write perfect books and that she made a horrible mistake when introducing the ardUer. I know she said it might have been better without the ardUer but I think she doesn't really believe it. She thinks she's done well. But I say she didn't. There is a reason why most foreign publishers stopped translating and publishing at Obsidian Butterfly. It's not the sex, it's the fact that the new storyline sucks.
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Date: 2007-05-10 02:01 pm (UTC)Nonconsensual sex is a recurrent fantasy, but I disagree on the repressed. I think many people (mostly women) have such fantasies and not all of them are repressed. Also I wouldn't say 'nonconsensual', I'd call it 'dubious consent'; because in the AB books the sex always begins with somewhat unwilling partners but 20 pages later they're all happily having sex (because of the big plot line that can generate the excuses for that much sex... the ardUer). *blinks* Does that make any sense? ^___^;;
Oh yeah, I totally agree. LKH will never admit she didn't write perfect books and that she made a horrible mistake when introducing the ardUer. I know she said it might have been better without the ardUer but I think she doesn't really believe it. She thinks she's done well. But I say she didn't. There is a reason why most foreign publishers stopped translating and publishing at Obsidian Butterfly. It's not the sex, it's the fact that the new storyline sucks.