Mind you, I do think Anita herself is being raped by the ardeur to some extent - she doesn't want to be sleeping with all the men she's sleeping with. She's rationalised herself into a place of "enjoyment" and building relationships about it, but when you consider how prudish her character was early on, the infliction of the ardeur on her was pretty much rape, even if it was unintentional on Jean-Claude's part (and even if he hadn't already violated her by giving her vampire marks against her will), because it leaves her entirely without control of her own body. She's as much a victim as everyone else (which doesn't excuse her own victimisation of others). She never intended to become so promiscuous - she never intends to take any new lovers. It's always pushed onto her by something she has absolutely no ability to control.

Fundamentally, LKH really hasn't got past the "I can only enjoy crazy wild sex if I'm coerced into it" stage, which is deeply problematic in someone who uses feminist polemic all the time. Neither Anita nor Merry can just do it because they're into having group sex, it has to be something that they're backed into a corner over and then, oh dear me, find they enjoy. It's pretty much the same as those romance novels where the women are raped by pirates or sheikhs or whoever and it's supposed to be terribly sexy, except that Anita (and LKH) is in such deep denial over the amount of control she has or lacks over her own life that she can't see the position she's really in.

I would love to see what would happen to Anita herself if she suddenly lost all her powers, particularly the ardeur, and how she would actually deal with the reality of what she'd been doing if she didn't have to do it any more. Alas, LKH is convinced that she's writing someone truly liberated and cannot see any of this, so is unlikely to explore the possibility of Anita realising that she's become a slave. And not in the kinky sense.