Category: Erotic Romance

• August 24, 2021

  Bared to You by Sylvia Day

  CW for NSFW discussion of sex and rape. I enjoyed certain aspects of this book in my own peculiar laughing-at-50-Shades-metacommentary way, and was deeply troubled by certain other aspects of it. There are some serious issues if you take the book seriously, and at a certain point, it kind of insists that you do take…
• February 17, 2021

  The Sex Life of Saint Augustine: Spiritual Ecstasy and Sierra Simone’s Priest

  

  This is more of an heretical sermon on the novel than anything else! Beware of spoilers for the entire book. This essay starts off as a review of Priest, discusses an historical example of sexuality and salvation in Augustine’s confessions, contrasts that with the idea of sex as spiritual transcendence in the novel (along with…