Safe Sex is No Fun

[Burgess, John]

Guess it's just my reading, but each instance of sex in GR -- though I 
might exclude the Pudding sequence, but I might not -- seems to be a 
direct confrontation or refutation of the violence that pervades the 
background.

Clearly, love-making under the barrage balloons serves this purpose. Sex 
on the rack flies in the face of the dark imagery that dominates the 
pre-war German films cited, even sex with Bianca aboard the Anubis is a 
move away from the decadence that informs the milieu.

Slothrop's sexual activity is never brutal in itself (he doesn't seem, to 
my eyes, to be getting much of a kick from Greta's fantasies). 

I'm still pondering Pudding's S/M, though... it took a few readings to 
supress the gag-reflex, and as his particular proclivities are so alien 
to mine, I'm having a hard time getting my mind into his.  As he says 
it's what he needs, though, I'd suggest that coprophagia is, for him, 
also life-affirming.