The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such
as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay /
Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical
Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).
Nominally a romance about two
lesbian lepidopterists with a taste for BDSM role play (ah, that old chestnut, straight out of screenwriting 101), Strickland uses that foundation
as a jumping off point for an exploration into personal identity, from the
perspective of what lovers will do to keep each other happy and fulfill the needs of a partner, both carnally and intellectually, even if those actions run counter to what they may personally enjoy.