The Bloody Chamber

Female sexuality - The Bloody Chamber

"I was aghast to feel myself stirring"

Confusion about sexuality - The Bloody Chamber

"the thought of love at the same time as repugnance

Male sexuality and shame - The Tiger's Bride

"A tear, I hoped of shame"

Male sexuality and destruction

"the child of his desire"

Liberation - Lady of the House of Love

"she would like to be human"

Trapped by family and bloodline - Lady of the House of love

"the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors"

Female sexuality - The Company of Wolves

"she laughed at him full in the face, she ripped of his shirt for him"

Woman as dominant - The Company of Wolves

"she lay his fearful head on her lap"

How the Count looks at her - The Bloody Chamber

"with lust

what attracts him to her - The Bloody Chamber

he "sensed the potentiality for corruption"

Loss of innocence - The Bloody Chamber

"a garment of that innocence of mine for which he had lusted fell away" the further she goes into the chamber"

The Soldier - The Lady of the House of Love - x2

"has the special quality of virginity"

"so young"

Virginity - The Company of Wolves

"within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity"