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itself, expressing disappointment in the work's lack of variation, describing it as "boring fucking and fucking boring." Ian Keogh of Slings & Arrows was also unimpressed. Grading the book 2 out of 5; he bemoaned that the sex "might work as erotica for a boy in his early teenage years who’s led a
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charged the artist with deliberately producing an extremely provocative story, Hernandez responded "Sure, but I'm only depicting vanilla sex, which is only for starting a family. No titillating violence or corn-holing or sex with animals."
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