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Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

Robert Irwin (1997)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingX
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.21

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentExplicit
LanguageModerate

Trigger warnings

On-Page SexSexual AssaultDubious ConsentPower ImbalanceManipulationDeathNecrophiliaViolence

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Tropes

DystopiaMorally Gray ProtagonistPower ImbalanceManipulation

Themes

Power and CorruptionSexual PoliticsFreedom vs CaptivityReality vs FantasyManipulationDecadenceFatalism

Synopsis

Orkhan is released from a lifetime's captivity in the Cage of the Imperial Harem and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. But flowers of evil flourish in a bed of boredom and, in this novel of bizarre erotic fantasy, Orkhan, who entertains the fantasy that he is indeed the master of his women, enters a maze of perverse relationships masterminded by the devotees of the Prayer-Cushion movement. Temptation, seduction, story-telling and magic are used to lure the Sultan towards a climax which is designed to be simultaneously ecstatic and fatal. Featuring as it does sex with men, women, fairies and alligators, this strange little book will delight necrophiliacs, masochists, transvestites, eunuchs, ironists and lovers of beauty and ugliness everywhere.

Tags

Erotic FantasyExperimental FictionLiterary FantasySurrealism