2) Anita doesn't want a baby anyway. Now, even if someone doesn't want a baby, a miscarriage can be pretty traumatic, but it still makes the "danger" a lot less.
She doesn't want it only if she's talking to someone who says she should want it. She wants it the moment somebody says she can get rid of it.

*sigh*

A bunch of people pile on Anita to keep her from shifting, and I don't understand how that's supposed to work, but whatever, LKH is an extremely stupid person so we just have to accept it.
In translation from the stupid magical system from this series, it's because she can shove her 'beast' into other people.

Yes, MORE metaphorical dubcon. Everything is about dubcon/noncon in this series.

"Now that I was seeing him [Graham], and not just looking at him, I could see that he wasn't unhappy to be nude in front of me. [That makes me think she's at a life drawing class.] That pissed me off." (197)
In translation from her insane euphemisms, he's got a boner.

Yup. I will bet a kidney that if he had been naked and scared and of 100% Northern European descent, she'd have been turned on and raped him then and there.
This, though? YES.

Okay, that's true, but only if you're actually attracted to the person to a level where your libido shuts off the part of your brain that thinks "this isn't such a good idea." Anita is not attracted to Graham on that level, and with all these people in the room, I think it would be relatively easy not to end up fucking.
Honestly, at this point in the series, I think Anita pretty much was compelled to screw every vaguely attractive white man to prove she was -really really into men totally not like those other women who don't really like men really-.

It did make people wonder if she was overcompensating for something.

How is LKH not embarassed to write this stuff? It reads like she wrote it while crying over old letters from her ex-husband and masturbating at the same time.
Ouch.

However, I'm going to be a hypocrite, because I'd say Shutdown fits that description much better. And now that story just became even more horrifying than it already was.

I am sensing a pattern: only evil/wrong people ever ask Anita what she wants.
Unfortunately true. On one level it's for the noncon, but on another I think Anita's outright said it's because people should automatically know what she wants.

Seeeeriously.

That's coming up in Kiss the Dead.

Does anyone have a clue why an author would go out of their way to break their own canon in order to make their protagonist even more awesome? Wouldn't it be better to make one's protaganist awesome in ways that do not break canon? I can understand when fan authors disrespect canon, but an author disrespecting her own canon, blatantly and on purpose, does not make sense to me.
I think it's a confused sense of what people mean when they talk about so-and-so 'doing the impossible'. Obviously no one actually does the impossible, they just do things that are so hard and/or unlikely as to be effectively impossible. But that may not click in some authors' minds...

"You could date outside your species, I knew that, but I remembered Richard saying once that dominants don't." (201) Why not? Stupid.
Seems like some sort of creepy metaphor for Respectable People Not Dating Outside Their Race (what with her obsession about dominants being superior to submissives). Except that of course Respectable People always have a funny ability to end up in bed with ohdeargad now her noncon fetish is EVEN WORSE

"I didn't think he'd find someone willing to share him with what amounted to a permanent mistress, furry or not, but hey, it wasn't my life. It was his life."
UGH SHUTDOWN FORESHADOWING

because it is of vital importance to shit on one's ex while admiring one's current fucktoy.
Eh? You say something? All I heard was something about 99% of the scenes in which Micah and/or Nathaniel and Richard are in the same room.

I thought Damian was always a daywalking vampire and it had nothing to do with Anita.
No, her vagina apparently turned him daywalking in Incubus Dreams.

And what JC ACTUALLY said was that he wanted an alliance with Auggie to rule "the middle of this country" (207), which makes me think, again, that LKH's vocabulary is pathetic.
No, I think that's just how she thinks of geography. (See "Europe", aka "France and Uberwald".) You just know that, if she lived in California or New York rather than St. Louis, she'd be describing it as "flyover country".

Also, have I mentioned lately how much I hate this might-makes-right stuff LKH loves? Besides it obviously being morally reprehensible, it wouldn't work as a society for two seconds.
It's all part of the creepy noncon fetish.

At this rate, I've begun to think the woman's entire fic-writing brain is one big creepy noncon fetish...