Affliction

I decided to give the Anita Blake books one more chance and see if maybe Laurell K Hamilton could get back to supernatural crimes and mysteries. A good deal of the opening pages of Affliction see Anita Blake telling any number of self righteous people that there’s nothing wrong with having sex with hundreds of random strangers and it’s none of their business anyway.  In Anita Blake’s universe, just about any ‘normal’ person is now shown as a narrow minded bigot and often, a bible thumping narrow minded bigot. You’re married and only have sex with one person?  Bah! What a fuddy…

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The Inner Circle

T. C. Boyle’s The Inner Circle is the story of Professor Kinsey and his obsession with all things sexual.  In the book we find that Prok, as Kinsey is known to his associates, is a pansexual pervert who loves all manner of deviant behavior.  Part and parcel of his personal philosophy, of course, is that there is no such thing as perversion or deviant behavior-all human animals want all manner of sexual contact. The story is told from the perspective of John Milk, one of Prok’s many students/sex partners/researchers.  Prok has sex with anything that moves, and so to, does…

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