Sex becomes one of the only remaining powers and used voraciously.
Sex is the ultimate controller and destroyer.
Lore is manipulated and exhauted by spanner. Finally, when she extricates herself from the situation, it is spanner, the controller of sex, that can not survive. She had lived off Lore for so long that she could not concieve of a way of living without devouring. It is Spanner who perishes without the control.