GRGR(5) War and sex

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One theme we might wish to discuss is the conflation of war and sex (not
that this is new at this point, and not coincidentally introduced
through Roger and Jessica) particularly through the description of war
in sexualized terms.  I think of Slothrop and his possibly psychokinetic
misogony, Pointsman and The Book, and then Pointsman's fetishization of
conditioning. . . and so on.  Of course, the Pointsman passage here is
taken to its extreme in the next episode.