Serial novel JESUSLAND, chapter 7: Women's Bodies

(Our serial novel set in a U.S. that's become a theocracy, continues. If you want to catch up, click here and look under 'Previous Posts.' Chapters are short, you'll catch up quick.)

Adam noted the Beloved’s clothes. She was wearing black with a touch of red at the throat. Her hat was stylish without being vulgar or extravagant: gray with a smudge of rough red at the top, as if the light of the Lord had scalded it with an almighty glare.

Her face was expressionless, but Adam noticed that her body harbored the tension of a scarcely contained anguish.

He knew women’s bodies. He could read their moods there, where no one else could easily read. There was one aspect of The Approved Life that he did not scrupulously follow: his attitude to women. He went out of his way to sleep with them. He followed a frowned-upon Animal Instinct. He was a sexual outlaw. He did not, for example, follow one of the slogans of the Reformation: FELLATIO AND CUNNILINGUS PUT THE DEVIL’S TONGUE IN YOUR MOUTH. In fact, he made it his business, and a very satisfying one at that, to win his partners over to these practices. His behavior was Non-Sanctioned, but many women were willing to go along with his behavior, and he took his chances. He suspected that the sanction against these modes of sex was more honored in the breach than the observation.
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