The Holocaust. Chernobyl. The Industrial Revolution and child labor. 'Murica and Mexican immigrant tariffs. Atrocities fill the world, and we stare at our screens to get through the day. Some days, that unnaturally bright screen just isn't enough. 

​   What then? And how do we justify (or even motivate) our sexual desires while confronting these horrors?

   Try as I might, there was just no way around it: this boring-as-shit chapter was integral to the plot. I had​ to write it. So how the hell do I make it interesting?