"How can I love you and still want to do such terrible things to you and with you? How can it be okay with you that I like what I like?"
Now this is where I get confused:
Way back in LC we discovered that Richard can get excited by watching the porn movie that ended with a werewolf shifting while having sex. And then the werewolf killed and ate her which sickened Richard. This seemed like a very normal reaction to me. Yes it was a bit edgy and uncomfortable for Richard to feel excited but then normal for him to get sick when the girl was killed and eaten. Based on the following dialogue between Richard and Anita this was a temptation. Not the killing and eating but shifting during sex.
Then in ID we are told by Anita that Richard is a closet sadist because he was excited by the idea of having sex with Anita while she smelled of fear. Now I don't know about anyone else but I found it incredibly jarring to have the character of Richard labelled as a sadist. When I think sadist I think of Raina and Gabriel. Never once was Richard referred to as a top or dominant in sex play. She called him a sadist. Which was later demonstrated in the same book when Richard's girlfriend told Richard he made love like a rapist. They go on and on about how Richard likes rough sex and can be vigorous to the point of painful.
Then in TH we have that horrible sex scene with Richard again where he pounds Anita so hard she bleeds. Which he likes but doesn't want to like it even though Anita seemed to like it just fine. And it ends in another awful angsty moment.
My point here is that slowly the books introduced BDSM where the author is dipping her toe into the subject a bit clumsily. She writes Anita being introduced to it and then before you know it they have a trunk full of toys in JC's bedroom and velcro cuffs at the house in the country. Everyone gets in on it and everyone likes to play at topping or bottoming. The last several books almost always bring it into play and it is all very acceptable and normal by now.
Yet.....when it comes to Richard, it seems to be portrayed as something much darker and dangerous. So is Richard still supposed to be a sadist?
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Date: 2013-03-21 09:09 pm (UTC)Now this is where I get confused:
Way back in LC we discovered that Richard can get excited by watching the porn movie that ended with a werewolf shifting while having sex. And then the werewolf killed and ate her which sickened Richard. This seemed like a very normal reaction to me. Yes it was a bit edgy and uncomfortable for Richard to feel excited but then normal for him to get sick when the girl was killed and eaten. Based on the following dialogue between Richard and Anita this was a temptation. Not the killing and eating but shifting during sex.
Then in ID we are told by Anita that Richard is a closet sadist because he was excited by the idea of having sex with Anita while she smelled of fear. Now I don't know about anyone else but I found it incredibly jarring to have the character of Richard labelled as a sadist. When I think sadist I think of Raina and Gabriel. Never once was Richard referred to as a top or dominant in sex play. She called him a sadist. Which was later demonstrated in the same book when Richard's girlfriend told Richard he made love like a rapist. They go on and on about how Richard likes rough sex and can be vigorous to the point of painful.
Then in TH we have that horrible sex scene with Richard again where he pounds Anita so hard she bleeds. Which he likes but doesn't want to like it even though Anita seemed to like it just fine. And it ends in another awful angsty moment.
My point here is that slowly the books introduced BDSM where the author is dipping her toe into the subject a bit clumsily. She writes Anita being introduced to it and then before you know it they have a trunk full of toys in JC's bedroom and velcro cuffs at the house in the country. Everyone gets in on it and everyone likes to play at topping or bottoming. The last several books almost always bring it into play and it is all very acceptable and normal by now.
Yet.....when it comes to Richard, it seems to be portrayed as something much darker and dangerous. So is Richard still supposed to be a sadist?