I've been listening to an audio book for the last two days. It's quite good. I could get lost in it without problem. When it dealt with the main character feeling bad for doing bad things to bad people I disagreed, but still understood. Then, nearing the end of the book, it started introducing sexual themes. And I just don't understand at all. Especially the pure physical attraction described towards strangers and/or highly unsympathetic characters (the main character has been locked up for a long time, and is therefore a bit sexually starved).
I have never felt this. I think of people as thin, fat, tall, short, male, female, but never attractive or unattractive... they're just people... Being aroused by seeing particular body parts...??
One of the main characters has sex with someone other than his wife... why? He loves his wife. She loves him. The woman he has sex with is (apparently) attractive, but she has pretty much tortured him and I got the distinct impression that he disliked her quite a bit. He describes his arousal as some sort of unwilling reaction to... her body? Not the first time I've read this type of description, but I just don't understand.
I had no particular point to make. The disruption of my enjoyment of the book by this incomprehension (because people's motives and actions suddenly made no sense to me) just annoyed me. I'm finding myself more and more annoyed, lately, with this ever present sexuality in all types of media. It seems like a waste of time, disrupting the plot for some sex scenes. Why?