The Dark Thing

[Charles F. Albert]

> The availability of women sexually has always been and still is
> a commodity. 

Perhaps, but this thread began with an analogy employing gynecology.
 
> Someone on this list recommended ARC d'X by Steve Erickson before this gender discussion arose [is arose] amongst us...I am enjoying it immensely, and offer the following quote:
> 
> "When the blood stopped, after he'd taken her many times over the weeks that followed, he didn't wash her with the rags anymore. It was the hemorrhaging of his conscience to which Thomas tended.  If
> 
> [p.26., Owl Books version]

If I promise not to extrapolate the qualities of Mommie Dearest to 
describe all women, will you promise not to generalize about the way 
men think and feel from Mr. Erickson?
love,
cfa(who thinks it may be time to doff some hair shirts and toss them 
in the brassiere fuelled pyre)