But read for yourselves. A student's sex fantasies raise disturbing questions about the limit of free speech in cyberspace. Baker even seemed to take pleasure in the behavior of his protagonists and the suffering of their victims.
Rape is romance, snuff is climax.
The story that got Baker in trouble featured, in addition to the ceiling fan, acts performed with superglue, a steel-wire whisk, a metal clamp, a spreader bar, a hot curling iron and, finally, a match. Ordinarily, the story might never have drawn attention outside the voyeuristic world of Usenet sex groups. But Baker gave his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes. Unfortunately for Baker, the Michigan campus is well versed in the latest academic debate over where sexual fantasy turns into sexual abuse. MacKinnon immediately seized on Baker's case.