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Date Posted: 15:01:24 09/17/07 Mon
Author: Oleander
Subject: I know what you mean- but I think it was written a bit differently for a purpose.-->
In reply to: navine 's message, "I took it more as a bit of a slam to DG for writing "chick-lit-ish" sex scenes ..... that the reviewer was less-than-impressed with "chick-lit"-type sex scenes no matter WHAT the gender of the people involved. What the reviewer made me thing about was ......" on 14:26:52 09/17/07 Mon

Jaime and Claire are a part of a society that accepts their relationship, their sexuality, the whole ball of yarn. They don't have to disguise their attraction, emotions, or actions. So far as to even have sex in front of witnesses (Outlander).

John and Percy are allowed no such freedom. If you recal in Private Matter- when John is in that part of the city where Lavender House is, and Tom follows him...he states something like.. (paraphrasing)...being at the mollywalk, he was without a mask. When Tom came up to him, he felt liek he had to put the mask back on, but it was askew...

I thought this was important and enlightening because even if John was not behaving differently, psychologically there is a huge difference in how he felt, how he thought, how he perceived himself when he was in the company of people who were capable of accepting him.

John and Percy have to go through all of the rituals and emotions of their relationship in the strictest of secret. They have to constantly battle to keep their emotions and their actions in check- the loves scenes between them, to me at least, seem heightened and more emotional, I think, because of this.

Does this make any sense?

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