Transgressive sexual depictions in literature

[Robin Landseadel]

And I agree with you that there's something particularly ugly about  
the bulk of the depictions of sexuality in "V.", either by "virtue" of  
what constituted a joke between buddies late 50s / early 60s or by the  
decidedly homophobic flavor of other scenes, like Pynchon's bogus  
presentation of the premiere of "The Rite of Spring". I'm sure there's  
something nice and "literary" about the scene but a lot of it reads  
like ugly "fag" jokes. Again, it's part of the reason why I don't go  
back to "V." to read for pleasure, unlike all of the rest of the novels.

On Sep 8, 2010, at 3:36 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Both the gay Cyprian and the sexually-assertive Yashmeen have  
> something of a "P.C." atonement-ish quality, rendering the ATD sex  
> scenes almost stodgy, in some counter-intuitive way.  The baroque,  
> over-the-top sex scenes in GR are the most literary, the most fun,  
> and, probably, his best.