Off Course

September, 1987

Imagine a psychiatrist giving someone a word-association test: Sex? Violation. Sex? Rape. Sex? An act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation. Sex? Torture. What do you think the diagnosis would be? Not your idea of a good date?Now consider the following.It is intense, often desperate. The internal landscape is violent upheaval, a wild and ultimately cruel disregard of human individuality, a brazen, high-strung wanting that is absolute and imperishable, not attached to person...