In a pursuing/pursued dynamic the pursued can have a lot of power until they get caught, especially at key moments. Modern marriage proposals come to mind. I recall one painting from my trawling with the standard courtship fondling and "accepted"/"rejected!" variants to either side.
After I got the idea, I did some image searches for reference and noticed that the body language on most of the vases did not match my mental image of what Allegre was doing to Duv. So I did a bit more digging via my normal approach to issues I don't know much about, which was to do a keyword trawl through Google Books (often what I get is vaguely scholarly, quite often pages/chapters/etc. are missing - it's an interesting and somewhat random way to get a lot of different opinions on a topic very fast).
The more I read about the many ways men made themselves ridiculous in the ancient sport of competitive boy-chasing, the more what Allegre was doing (which is as much an explicit "I have you by the balls" assertion of dominance as anything) really didn't... match.
I ended up throwing that line in because it was mentioned Duv wrote a paper on Barrayaran homosexual mentoring in the last fic so he's probably considered parallels - anyway it amused me.
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:33 am (UTC)After I got the idea, I did some image searches for reference and noticed that the body language on most of the vases did not match my mental image of what Allegre was doing to Duv. So I did a bit more digging via my normal approach to issues I don't know much about, which was to do a keyword trawl through Google Books (often what I get is vaguely scholarly, quite often pages/chapters/etc. are missing - it's an interesting and somewhat random way to get a lot of different opinions on a topic very fast).
The more I read about the many ways men made themselves ridiculous in the ancient sport of competitive boy-chasing, the more what Allegre was doing (which is as much an explicit "I have you by the balls" assertion of dominance as anything) really didn't... match.
I ended up throwing that line in because it was mentioned Duv wrote a paper on Barrayaran homosexual mentoring in the last fic so he's probably considered parallels - anyway it amused me.