In the same way that, for instance, science-fiction or fantasy tries to conjure up other civilisations in order to contextualise our own, so erotica is the one genre which gets to look at social conventions one by one and imagine what would happen if they didn't exist or if they were systematically ignored. Like other kinds of genre fiction, it should be mind-expanding. The whole point of erotica is often not so much to turn you on as to go to places that other writing cannot – to break down taboos. I mean yes, ew, if you like, of course a lot of these things may not be very appealing depending on your tastes, but more fundamentally I just think this is a misunderstanding of the genre. And scanning through some of the other GR reviews here, there's a lot of people objecting that it's ‘icky’ – one reviewer lists all the things that feature in Delta, things like incest, rape, paedophilia, and then just says, ‘Ew, right?’ I was rereading bits of this last night after seeing several one- or two-star reviews of it pop up in my feed recently.
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