I like vampire lit for much the same reason I like science fiction: both change the premises of our life experience and, thus, challenge our usual cultural and psychological assumptions. Vampire lit, in particular, lends itself to upending commonplaces about gender and family structure. It's often been noted that vampire reproduction is ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, All!

I have been reading Anne Rice's The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of her erotic/porn series, and it has made me realize anew why yaoi exists. This book prompts comparisons to Ai no Kusabi: both have protagonists who are forced to be sex slaves for implacable social superiors whom our protagonists find irresistibly ( Read more... )