2007-07-16 Pioneer or Perv?

I loved Water Music and was truly impressed by how TC Boyle captured so well the images of lowland and highland Scotland, I can't say how well he has captured the ordinary lives of 1930s and 40s America but this book is as well written as you would expct of the author.
I'm left wondering whether any of Kinsey's circle wrote their own version of their experiences. And not to put too fine a point on it I'm rather curious as to how interactive Milk got in his H activities with the good doctor. It's all very well telling us what the Prof could do with a whole toothbrush right at the end of the book but what was it the narrator increasingly found to be a tedious duty when the prof appeared naked and primed for action at his bedside? Generally for a book about the development of openness about sex the tone is quite coy and curiously detached in it's descriptions of sexual activity. Not that I was looking for porn but Milk's narrative is pompous rather than youthfully earnest about the importance of being freer to express your sexuality.
Milk sounded to me like a cold untrustworthy creep, the professor comes across as a cold manipulative pervert and an arrogant bore. The other characters scattered throughout the book are the warmth and, to me, more representative of the truth and variety of human nature.
Had I read this first I might not have tried Water Music.