i will ask about it
tell me your thoughts of vita sexualis, even if you shared them to discord already lmao
I ALREADY SHARED GHEM ON FHE SERVER hsjdjfjfjfjfjf
ok lemme just copy paste my goodreads review here instead:: (the whole thing got long so I’m adding a “keep reading)
before starting this book (or any of mori's writing), i had little to no knowledge about him.
having read bungou stray dogs and enjoying seeing how asagiri desinged his characters based on the books they wrote, this book was one i was certainly looking forward to. more or less i had a guess by the end i'd either be weirded out or be confused (about asagiri's intention/interpretation)
and now that i'm finished, i can certainly say: What the hell was Kafka Asagiri thinking?..
same goes for any website that advertizes this book as erotic because this is the furthest from that genre, trust me.
anyways, i don't come across examples of talking about sex, desire and so on (or the lack of the said desire, low sex drive et cetera) in the media so that was an interesting read in that sense. yet just like Wild Geese, the story from the start to finish feels static, the few exceptions it doesn't, you forget by the time you reach the end and you're left with a "So that's it?" when you close the book.
also I said this in the server as well but while reading it I was reminded of this convo I had w a classmate who wants kids. What she said that day was like abt dressing them up and playing w them etc etc so I asked her if she wanted a kid or a tiny human to dress up (like a doll) and play with. So considering (apparently) Vita Sexualis is like a partial autobiography of Mori (Just like most of Dazai’s works) this whole dressing up logic, Vita Sexualis as a book and the existence of Elise makes more sense to me? In a way, kind of like how you seek company when alone at home so you turn the tv on or get a pet. (bc fr what we saw of mori and elise through others eyes that we also considered red flags were the dress up scenes- Mori going shopping to get elise dresses or begging her to try a dress. and considering he doesnt let many people around himself due to his position -and as a person- he must be more or less desperate to have someone around him without any hidden agenda)
