Chapter Nine Lola had had occasional scenes with girls; I’ve recounted one or two, but they were mostly vanilla. Can lesbians be vanilla? I think you know what I mean; just going at it with mouths and fingers and genitals. However intense, it’s still vanilla. Lola had a ravenous appetite for s*x, especially with men, but occasionally with women, though most of it was pretty straightforward f*****g. Energetic, inventive but not what you would call kinky. Except, of course, in respect of the psychological interaction between her and me, what she did with my head, teasing and denial and flaunting her infidelities, turning her sharp little knife in the wound of my jealousies. But at one time she went through a phase that was anything but vanilla. It was full-on kink, a foray into the word of

