Moira -- the good Moira, the non-threatening Moira and, tellingly, the non-sexual Moira. Sexual Moira is not a person to be pitied or a person due sympathy or who feels pain. As with many of the prejudices that run rampant on this programme, the sexualisation of Moira is overtly displayed but poorly challenged. The depth of Moira's character and any sympathetic characteristics are all overshadowed by the simple narrative of the dangerous, and even the evil, sexual woman. So strongly is this message carried that the writers don't even try to make sexual Moira someone we can empathise with -- only when she is stripped of all her sexuality does she get to be human. Share this: 12 Responses I strongly disagree with this reading. I found the first season of American Horror Story fascinating in part for its normalization of female sexuality: Vivien masturbates while thinking of a man who is not her husband, Jessica Lange has an affair with a man much her junior, Lange's daughter, who has Down Syndrome, whose name I can't remember is also portrayed as having sexual desires and being very positive about the fact that she is not a virgin, Violet is not made into a sexual object, and her loss of virginity happens off-screen; afterwards she's clothed and we get to leer at Tate lounging around naked if that's our thing. I agree that Moira's youthful self is sexually objectified (and the husband rapes her, by the way, which is what is