I think the thing with charlie is that he hasn't had the opportunity to be spoiled yet. I kind of like it more, because no one is perfect. Chocolate manufacturing or oversized peaches this ain't, but then again these stories were designed for an adolescent male audience in a pre-politically correct age where casual misogyny went more unnoticed than now. The Great Switcheroo is a tale of wife swapping for a one-off darkened sex session between neighbouring couples without the wives knowing. There are running themes of vice and eroticism and as well as the darker cruel exploits and moralistic comeuppence that are familiar from his kids novels. In Bitch, following a scientific experiment to produce a scent that stimulates sexual attraction, he turns into a seven-feet penis that floats into space, declaring "But tell me truly, did you ever see / a sexual organ quite so grand as me?". The "horny" character Uncle Oswald, "the greatest fornicator of all time", gets a novel to himself and pops up in Switch Bitch – a collection of short stories that originally appeared in Playboy. It's the books themselves that fascinate most though: his adult material is not for prudes. Also learned in a recent podcast that Dahl had quite the raunchy side, including a career writing for Playboy:Īdult biographer Jeremy Treglown meanwhile labels Dahl "a fantasist, an anti-semite, a bully and a self publicising trouble-maker" and describes his extensive sexual liaisons when working in the US.
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