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...getting to explore someone who is totally comfortable with their sexuality. The faerie world doesn't see sex as a problem. She's somebody who has a very different attitude than your typical American. As the series has continued, the idea that we have in this country that sex sells everything, but yet it's bad-that double standard has always puzzled...
...what you will, but the immensely popular genre most recently featured in HBO's True Blood owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton, who launched her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character 15 years ago. Hamilton has since started another series, starring faerie queen Merry Gentry. She talked to TIME about sex in America, acting as therapist for fans, and why she became a Wiccan...
...getting interviewed. I had reporters ask me several times, "As a woman writing a female main character, wasn't I bothered by all of the sexual content in my books?" I replied, "If I were a man, writing a male main character, would you have a problem with the sex?" And several of them said...
...quite shocked. There's this belief that women aren't supposed to be comfortable with, or bold about, their sexuality. I get people standing across from me at my signings, women, in their 20s and 30s, saying they didn't know they were allowed to enjoy sex. And I'm thinking, "What's going on here...
...because some of it is so personal. But they feel like they know me through reading my books, so they'll tell me all sorts of things. I'm sort of getting used to it. One woman told me that she had once stopped in the middle of having sex and made her boyfriend get a condom because in my books, I always write about the importance of protection. And I've had more women than I can count tell me that they've left abusive relationships because my character Anita wouldn't take it. I take great pride...