Bodily Harm (2010)
“He liked that, he liked thinking of sex as something he could win at. Sometimes he really hurt her, once he put his arm across her throat and she really did stop breathing. Danger turns you on, he said. Admit it. It was a game, they both knew that. He would never do it if it was real, if she really was a beautiful stranger or a slave girl or whatever it was he wanted her to pretend. So she didn’t have to be afraid of him.
A month before the operation Rennie had a phone call from Visor. Keith, t...he managing editor, thought it would be sort of fun to do a piece on pornography as an art form. There had already been a number of anti-porno pieces in the more radical women’s magazines, but Keith thought they were kind of heavy and humourless. They missed the element of playfulness, he said. He wanted a woman to write it because he thought they’d crack the nuts of any guy who tried to do it. Rennie tried to find out who he meant by “they,” but he was vague. Tie it in with women’s fantasy lives, if you can, he said.MoreLess
A month before the operation Rennie had a phone call from Visor. Keith, t...he managing editor, thought it would be sort of fun to do a piece on pornography as an art form. There had already been a number of anti-porno pieces in the more radical women’s magazines, but Keith thought they were kind of heavy and humourless. They missed the element of playfulness, he said. He wanted a woman to write it because he thought they’d crack the nuts of any guy who tried to do it. Rennie tried to find out who he meant by “they,” but he was vague. Tie it in with women’s fantasy lives, if you can, he said.MoreLess
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