Title: Promisingly interesting, critically flawed
Product review: Many people have already commented upon Mr. Feintuch's fascination with badly behaved people learning lessons in painfully slow motion. This book is an orgy of more of the same. What is redeeming about that, at least in his other books, is that we are a society much in need of lesson learning about bad behavior. To the extent that a book can provide insight into our lives, Mr. Feintuch's work is admirable.Problem. As noted, the idea that virginity would be necessary for 'power' is an interesting concept for this genre. Allowing homosexual activities as an 'out' (no pun intended) is an idiotic plot device, however, not the least because it wasn't integral to the story. It also does not make sense, since as someone else put it so delicately, 'penetration is penetration'.Some will say criticism of this is homophobic. Maybe so. Maybe not. Nonetheless, that part of the story will quite likely put off readers on the whole book, for whatever reason.
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