When I first sat down to write my latest book, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, I imagined the final draft as rather different from what it actually ended up being. I’ll leave it to readers to decide whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It’s certainly not unusual for authors to do an unexpected about-face as they go deeper into the writing process. But with Perv, the subject matter of sexual deviance (or some of it, anyway) was an especially thorny landscape for me to navigate. When you venture into scientific research on, say, rape, pedophilia, and bestiality—and you can’t avoid them in a science book on sexual deviance—things get heavy fast. As a reader, I’m usually averse to an authorial air of unbridled rage, and I generally prefer to take a lighter tone in my own writing. So, that was a bit of a problem, since like any other person with a soul, such subjects break my heart and can make me quite angry. Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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