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The chapter that stood out the most to me was “Wichita’s Deadly Rapist.” Her self-mastery is so evident in this chapter. The way she meditates with her fears, calls on her spiritual protectors, and then also knows how to completely master a terrifying situation of sex with a voyeur. Wow! I have read this chapter a couple of times now. I also love the quote: “I realized that B.T.K. Was in all of us. Was I not Bound to repeat the same mistakes? Had I not suffered the Torture thinking there was a shortcut to success? And did I not just watch the sharp edge of reality Kill my romantic illusions?” And of course the rapist ends up being a “good citizen” and family man!
<p class=”p1″>There are so many chapters of this book that delight me and I come back to: when Betty goes through her celibate priestess phase writing Liberating Masturbation in LA, when she attend the gay men’s bathhouse (a personal fantasy), but one I recall the best and holds several opposing elements at once is when she goes back to Kansas and supports her mother in palliative care in her childhood home and has the scary/hot sexual interaction on a summer night with a stranger. What a fucking story! the pacing of it delights me, I constantly think “you can’t write this shit!” but she DID! and she lived it. Betty you inspire me endlessly. Thank you for your stories and your wisdom.</p>
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