IV Ch 17 Notes

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:02 AM, rich wrote:

> 305
> Shasta says all the women around Mickey loved the brutal way he
> treated them, he made them invisible, played rough, and they loved it.
> any comments on that? Has sex been so degraded in the post love-in era
> that its become so far flung from any sort of love, affection, caring?
> the following S&M sham seems to confirm just that. I found much of the
> sexual overtones of this chapter very troubling, soulless, and very
> sad.

Then you should check out Gravity's Rainbow for even more troubling,  
soulless, and very sad sex. Of course, the early seventies were kinda  
kinky . . .