Threatening to murder someone she loved goes way beyond bugging. Since he was in his right mind at the time, I think that's a hell of a lot worse than what Micah did while under the effect of a metaphysical roofie.
JC told Anita right before they married the marks, that they would be sharing powers. He knew the ardeur was one of his powers, therefore at the absolute minimum, he knew she could catch it, and gave her absolutely no warning so that she could decide if the risk was worth it. There's no way the possibilty wouldn't even have occured to him, especially since they were married at the groin chakra.
What's in the text is that the ardeur acts as a deate-rape drug on both parties, and that JC consistently lies to and manipulates Anita. Not just about the ardeur, he also lied to her about his lust-inducing powers in CoTD, never told her about being an incubus, or that the master-servant bond can feel like love. The reason readers seem to ignore that, and forgive JC, seems to come down to: JC's hot and Micah's not.
Since Anita found out about JC's continuing lies and manipulation in BM, and refused to deal with it, I have no particular sympathy for her, but how anyone who claims to be a feminist could side with JC in the early books, when he acted just like any other controlling creep from a bodice-ripper is beyond me.
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Date: 2008-01-02 04:14 pm (UTC)JC told Anita right before they married the marks, that they would be sharing powers. He knew the ardeur was one of his powers, therefore at the absolute minimum, he knew she could catch it, and gave her absolutely no warning so that she could decide if the risk was worth it. There's no way the possibilty wouldn't even have occured to him, especially since they were married at the groin chakra.
What's in the text is that the ardeur acts as a deate-rape drug on both parties, and that JC consistently lies to and manipulates Anita. Not just about the ardeur, he also lied to her about his lust-inducing powers in CoTD, never told her about being an incubus, or that the master-servant bond can feel like love. The reason readers seem to ignore that, and forgive JC, seems to come down to: JC's hot and Micah's not.
Since Anita found out about JC's continuing lies and manipulation in BM, and refused to deal with it, I have no particular sympathy for her, but how anyone who claims to be a feminist could side with JC in the early books, when he acted just like any other controlling creep from a bodice-ripper is beyond me.