VLVL Frenesi & Brock
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Aug 9 17:36:43 CDT 2003
on 10/8/03 12:26 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:
> Brock is master, Frenesi servant in this relationship:
>
> "Sounds like one more of those bullshit State degradation rituals, thanks
> anyway but I'll pass."
> "Oh - you'd have no choice. You'd have to come." He was smiling.
> She moved her pretty jaw a little forward. "I wouldn't come."
> "Then a man in a uniform, with a big pistol, would have to make you come."
> (201.11-17)
>
> Note the sexual content of this conversation. He's seducing her.
Frenesi goes after Brock, not vice versa. She wants to be seduced by him, is
as much the instigator (with her camera) of the sexual ritual as he is.
Probably more so. And she uses him sexually as much as he uses her.
But surely we can wait until we get to this point in the text to argue about
these scenes?
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