There's a lot of stuff about God breathing life into people and such in Christian tradition, so the Aslan thing makes sense. What I don't get is why anyone would sexualize it. I've never been turned on by a guy's breath.

Cultural common ground, yeah. Those things are just so incredibly central to all these works, and I've never seen anything like it before that I can remember. Like, in the older rape fantasy romances I know about, the rape was acknowledged as rape. That doesn't seem to happen in these new books, which I think takes them to an entirely different level.