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Foster claims that sex can also means freedom, power, sacrifice, or rebellion. Foster discusses thoughts of one character during sexual experience, “he’s more interested in their cries of pain and outrage than in the activity occasioning them” (Foster 148). Foster reveals the intention of the sex scene to highlight the psychopath tendencies of a certain character, thus proving how can sex scene can mean more than the act
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