Her issues with intimacy are weird in the first books, I can understand sex being a big thing, but there's one book where she ends up with one of the werewolves in the same bed with her over night (she was protecting him or something). Anita was all weird with her Emo Werewolf boyfriend the next day because that was the first time she'd actually slept with a man and it was sort of equated with losing her virginity in the seriousness that she took it and Emo Werewolf didn't.

Richard, that's his name Richard the Emo Werewolf who she based on her now ex husband. She really wrote herself into a corner with that because from what I understand Hamilton doesn't like her ex, but Anita has to have sex with Richard or die.

Unless she's figured away to retcon her way out of that.

Unless she's figured away to retcon her way out of that.

I think there's lots of mutual self-loathing involved.

Anita has to have sex with Richard or die.

How...does that work, exactly?

Oh, you are going to be so sorry you asked.

That's so fucked up. Her having no women friends is more so...I can understand if women don't give you the arduer or whatever that bullshit is(although apparently I'm less straight than I thought) but I sense hostility. Am I on crack?

She did have a woman friend though, who got involved with the Rat King.

I can't remember why Anita has to have sex or die exactly. It's called aurder and it has something to do with getting bitten by the vampire master Jeanwhoever. Maybe Richard got bitten as well, because some how the three of them were tied together, until Other Dude showed up and turned out to be more Anita's soul mate and had some sex power over him. She has to have sex every few hours or sex overwhelms her and she dies.

Ha ha ha ha. Wow. Every few hours? That must put a damper on her crime solving.

Ok...it's not like I read a lot of that stuff. Just one or two that Buffistae loaned out. "Very interesting, but stupid."

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I love the phrase "emergency sex."

Also, it appears Anita Blake has every power imaginable while still remaining a regular human.

It's been a really long time since I've read the books. I think in the more recent ones there hasn't been really crime solving. It's more solving the supernatural mystery, which for awhile meant Anita picked up a new power. And defeated the previously undefeated monster. The sex thing is tied into some kind of power or strength she has sex to help her defeat the bad thing.

I think. I may be making the books sound worse than they are.