Spoilers Harlequin: Peter - The Pimp in training

[ravenhaley.livejournal.com]

I took Flo's adivce and decided to make a thread about Peter.

So Peter is suppose to come to St. Louis with Edward and Olaf. 

Here are the Spoilers for the Harlequin:

Peter gets clawed pretty good by a weretiger trying to help Anita.

He needs rough sex because he has issues with women because of his rape by Amanda in OB- and it was too rough for his first two girlfriends.

And, the kicker of it all - but no big surprise- he has a crush on Anita and she's his hero because she saved his family.

This is just gross. Peter having a crush on Anita is just wrong, but of course he has to crush on her ... there is no one else for him to crush on who isn't the "DIETY". 

In the timeline, Peter is suppose to be 14/15 years old. Yet, it would seem LKH will forget about his age because she forgets everything else (i.e. Asher smokes, Damian's age and oh how about a PLOT!)

But this isn't the first time LKH has mention sex and someone under the age of 18. If I remember, DM had the Siren making deals with Anita to sleep with her kids for them to come into their powers. I only thing one of them is over the age limit. So this doesn't surprise me. It is very much the direction of where LKH has gone now. The only thing on her mind is sex, sex, and more sex. For it is the only thing she writes about and there isn't anything to stop her including age limit.

As for Peter, I am not surprise this is where they are taking him. Look at Nate for crying out loud. This was a creature Anita was trying to help since BO and BM. Yet, somewhere from OB and NIC he no longer became this scared helpless barely over the age of 18 who was abused and kicked to the sideline. Oh no, he became a "stud muff"    Which I never got that. Nate is not a strong character. I still see the character as a broken boy who doesn't know how to take care of himself without selling himself one way or another. That alone is a reason I never liked the character.

There is just some things you can cross the line but others you can't. Furry sex and underage sex is just things no one should touch. Someone apparently doesn't know that. We have seen Furry sex  .... it is a matter of time for the other and it looks like it could be this next book. Of course, to justify the means LKH will just forget Peter's real ago and call him 18. I mean his "fake" ID says so. *eyeroll*

I think LKH won't write about therapy maybe because she is afraid she will learn that sex can't and will not solve your problems. Instead of drinking like most "normal" people, LKH has made Anita and the rest of the characters think sex is the answer to the questions. Anita still hasn't gotten over her mother's death or her father re-marrying. How about her ex who left her because she was mixed. She still harbors these issues and is making her life evening more of a mess the more she buries the problems underneath the next person she sleeps with.

Or maybe this is just life imitating art? 

Thoughts?

Comments

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

I think it's because she's doing things that are harder and harder to find funny, face it I don't think anybody can find something funny in the fact that Anita is advocating and apparently willing to have sex (Rough Sex at that) with a 14-15 year old rape victim in an apparent therapy attempt.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

...okay, don't most people who were raped at that age or around that age want NOTHING TO DO with sex? Or are very tentative about relationships with people of the gender that the rapist was?

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Depends on the mindset of the victim and the amount/type of support/therapy/treatment that they get. But for the most part relationships for a victim of rape are tricky things, but yeah for the most part it can take years or decades before they feel comfortable having a physical relationship with somebody.

But per LKH Peter not only is having sexual relations a short time after his rape but has gone though 2 girlfriend and he was 'too rough' or some shit like that for them and only the Crotch of Doom can heal him.

Uh...no.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

Y'know, seriously. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it took about 30 seconds. LKH doesn't have any excuse for not knowing how rape victims generally react, since she could ALSO go down to her local library and look up a book dealing with rape and a rape victim's typical reactions.

Also, I'm assuming that he was a virgin at the time. Aren't virgins supposed to be hesitant about a first consensual sexual encounter following their first ever sexual encounter being traumatic?

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah I know, but as we all know Earth Logic =/= LKH Logic

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

Depends on the person- some people like displacement- Gradually recreating the event [although normally without any of the level of damage or emotional stress] with someone they trust, to regain the feeling of control.

I get the feeling that this will not be the case here.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

True. But going through two girlfriends that he drove off via rough sex isn't gradually recreating, to me that sounds like he went for the whole enchilada right off the bat.

I can't envision Edward being okay with that. Not even a little. It makes me wonder if Peter is sort of turning into his rapist, unconsciously (or consciously) trying to tell himself that he'd been in control of the situation and that he'd liked it.

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

Like everything else, LKH has taken a perfectly workable idea and broken it. The theory is there and sound...

The reality is that she's about as probable as a hippo in a dress. That woman is made of fail.