salah99

** spoiler alert ** I really didn't like this story arc. If you strip away the pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo you are left with a story about a girl who was sold to a high class brothel by her parents and brought up to become a prostitue when she was an adult. However, she was sold to a nobleman, who saw an imperfection in one of her eyes and decided that this meant she would want to be on the masochistic end of extreme sado- masochistic sex when she grew up. At the advanced age of 14 she was asked if she wanted to commit herself to a life of prostitution. In Jacqueline Carey's terms she made a "free choice" to do that. In my terms she gave the only answer she could, the answer that she had been groomed to give for most of her life. At this point I was too uncomfortable to carry on. A similar thing happens for real in our world. Check out the Devadassi women of India. Despite the Indian governement making this practice illegal and trying to stamp it out, it has not completely gone. It is not pretty as it is portrayed here (and I didn't find it that "pretty" here).

2022-10-07 06:59