Badley, Linda (1996). Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture). Greenwood Press. p. 115. ISBN 0-313-29716-9.

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Upon awakening, Briar Rose is taken to the Prince’s kingdom where she is initiated into a life of sexual servitude. Throughout the novel, Briar Rose discovers her own sexuality and becomes comfortable with her new role as a sexual submissive. The novel also features a cast of other characters who are either sexually repressed or exploring their own sexuality.The next day, after having made Tristan march through the crowded streets, which included a short but intense meeting with the Captain of the Guard, Nicholas asks Tristan a series of questions as to what makes a strong, highborn prince obey with such a complete submission. Tristan answers, after some hesitation, that he loves anyone who punishes him no matter how crude or lowly they are and desires the loss of his self amid all the punishments, eventually "becoming" the punishments himself. Nicholas is moved by the answer and, after a frantic intercourse, confesses to him that he is in love with Tristan. She is a highly respected author who has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement in horror literature. Despite her many literary accomplishments, Rice is perhaps best known for The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty book, which remains one of her most popular and controversial novels. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was written in 1983 by Anne Rice, who is also known by her pen name A. N. Roquela.

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Troise, Laura. "Anne Rice FAQ Part 2/2". Archived from the original on August 2, 2012 . Retrieved October 11, 2010.During confinement, Beauty met with Prince Alexi, another slave with whom she got engaged in a passionate sexual encounter. The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty has been analyzed by folklorists and other scholars of various types, and many of them have noticed prominent erotic elements of the story. Some versions of the tale have Beauty raped and pregnant while sleeping, and only waking up after childbirth. [10] The child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commented that the tale "abounds with Freudian symbolism" [11] and that the princes who try to reach Sleeping Beauty before the appropriate time only to perish in the thorns surrounding her castle serves as a warning that premature sexual encounters are destructive. [12] Feminist theorists have focused on Sleeping Beauty's extreme passivity and the sexual nature of her awakening in the fairy tale. Anne Rice literalized these symbolic sexual elements—particularly, the passive sexual awakening or rape of Beauty that has been denounced by feminists—in the story by rewriting it into an explicit sadomasochistic erotica. However, Rice's cross-gender identification with the submissive male characters with receptive capacity in the trilogy—Alexi, Tristan and Laurent—enabled her to circumvent the equation of the female gender and masochism and, via their homoerotic interactions with the dominant male characters, she could exploit the erotic potential of phallic power while at the same time going beyond its boundary and "turning it against itself". [13] a b Ramsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-525-93370-0.