Question about IKS Gorkon - Enemy Territory (spoiler)

[trampledamage]

Ah... apologies up front for asking an unseemly question about sex scenes in a Trek novel


Anyway, the scene with Lokor and K'Nir near the end of Enemy Territory where he's basically kicking her around the room and forcing her to call him "master" - is that meant to be representative of standard Klingon sex, or an indication that Lokor is more of a sadist than his owning an illegal mind-scanner would have already indicated?

I know Klingon sex is violent, but I had always thought of it as being more mutually aggressive rather than this master-slave set up.

I'd like to know, because the answer either changes my view of Klingons, or my view of Lokor.

thanks

 

[Rosalind]

trampledamage, I edited "(spoiler)" into the title just in case.

 

[trampledamage]

Thanks, I wasn't sure whether to or not. Guess I should have

 

[KRAD]

It's more their thing than a general thing.

 

[trampledamage]

It's more their thing than a general thing.

Oh good, thank you!

 

[Trent Roman]

Makes you think, though... What with all the aggression, throwing of heavy objects and tight leather outfits, Klingons looks like the poster children for the BDSM scene. Yet what proper Klingon would want a Klingon mate who is submissive? That might be fine in a jegh'i... jegh'pu... in a slave, but wouldn't the ideal Klingon sexual partner be someone who keeps you constantly challenged, and never does anything as unseemingly and Ferengi-like as bowing to abuse? I just can't help but think that a well-acculturated Klingon would see anybody who likes to play the sub in a relationship as somehow contemptible.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[KRAD]

Makes you think, though... What with all the aggression, throwing of heavy objects and tight leather outfits, Klingons looks like the poster children for the BDSM scene. Yet what proper Klingon would want a Klingon mate who is submissive? That might be fine in a jegh'i... jegh'pu... in a slave, but wouldn't the ideal Klingon sexual partner be someone who keeps you constantly challenged, and never does anything as unseemingly and Ferengi-like as bowing to abuse? I just can't help but think that a well-acculturated Klingon would see anybody who likes to play the sub in a relationship as somehow contemptible.

In general, yes. But Lokor and K'Nir did not have an equal relationship.