Everything you need to understand or teach The Bridge of Lost Desire by Samuel R. Delany.
Power and sex, and the interconnections between them, motivate the char acters throughout the Neveryon series.
On one occasion Delany, questioned about this emphasis on power, began his reply with "All four of my grandparents were children of at least one parent born in slavery." A primitive and usually personal kind of exploitation, both economic and sexual, is the norm in the society which Delany depicts. The metal collars...