In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

74 Infidelity is a bourgeois concern. In China after the Revolution, caught adulterers would be killed— the man would have his head chopped off, the woman would be hung naked upside down above a fire just far enough away from the flame that it took half a day for her to stop shrieking a day and a night longer than that for her to die. This is why I’m not a Maoist or a Christian. ...

Share