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Fiction
Publisher:
Gyldendal
Release year:
2022
«Orgasmefiksert science fiction.»
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Orgasmefabrikken forms the center for author and filmmaker Sara Johnsen’s “Til Dancing boy”. It is an entertaining and in a way both humorous and frightening science fiction, added to Oslo a few decades in the future. There, Russian hackers, viruses and environmental disasters have broken democracy, and vaccines have led to infertility. As compensation, separate surrogate factories have been set up, where young girls earn a few kroner as surrogate mothers. But being “surro” should prove to be very traumatic.
A pink opening
The giantess Lizz gets to experience that. She’s a bit of a type:
“My face is ugly and almost ugly, but three things make men want me. The most important thing is the lip. The upper lip is swollen and has a split, is almost divided in two in the middle, with a pink opening towards the warm and soft mouth. I have a tired habit of putting my tongue in the opening there. The second is that it can shine from my eyes. As if I had two lanterns inside the skull, and when those lanterns are lit, my eyes light up so the rest of my face disappears. The third is my voice, which is supposedly hoarse, a little dark and sexy. “
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The straightforward, naive, cynical and sexy Lizz is the hub and narrator of this book. She is married to Boje. He is ugly, hot-tempered, self-absorbed and nervous, but has glowing orgasm hands. The two are the founders of orgasm, which has made them rich. Together they have a daughter, Thelma, young and beautiful, but incomprehensibly thin. Lizz loves Thelma, but has been looking for Dancing boy since she was young. It’s the little boy she presented to a rich couple.
One day a young man appears in the orgasm. He is not interested in sex with “fucking people”, but would like to have his own orgasm program with nature. Lizz is convinced that it is Dancing boy, and offers him a tailor-made program. But Dancing boy is a scary guy, and demands more of her than just virtual orgasm.
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“To Dancing boy” is a strange book. A sleazy and intangible chaos of anorexia problems, vaccine fears, distorted sexuality, gender identity and environmental destruction. The very idea of the surrogate factory is similar to the confusing book “The Factory” by Filipino-American Joanne Ramos, which came out the year before last. About young girls who are cynically used and abused to give rich couples children.
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Nevertheless, the book has its own drive. It’s entertaining, funny and serious in its own way. More than the plot, it is the different types that carry the story, with their quick exchanges of remarks and the many absurd scenes. The best part is the flashbacks to Lizz`s youth: From the surrogate factory on Lista, and the despair when she had to give up her son. And about the marriage to gay Tim, who came from a Christian family and was forced to go through a process in order to get rid of the ‘gay tendency’.
Johnsen may not be a great thinker or analyst, but she has an incredibly light and good pen, where she with the greatest ease creates intrigue, twists and surprising twists. A good book in other words, which makes an indelible impression.
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