Dear Prudence - Death Metal

Found this advise column on MSN. It made me laugh because a girl once asked me if I'd ever made love under heavy metal music. I guess some people do.
Dear Prudence,
My boyfriend is absolutely not a
sadistic sex killer. He is a kind and generally considerate person. But
he loves listening to gruesome death metal—music best described as
blasting noise with deranged growls and shrieks that often (from what I
can tell) celebrates horrendous misogynistic violence. He respects that
I am not a fan of this music and doesn't usually play it when I am
around. But he gets a huge charge from listening to it when we have sex
and is comparatively lackluster at the deed when he doesn't have it to
fire him up. Although I find the music unpleasant and distracting, I
don't object when I feel focused enough to block it out. What really
bothers me are the awful themes. It disturbs me that a seemingly
well-adjusted man in his 30s is aroused by torture fantasies set to
music. He says it's just about the "energy" for him, but I really don't
know what to think about someone who wants to listen to Cannibal Corpse
when he makes love to me. Am I being oversensitive about this?
—Blasted

Dear Blasted,
It's
always a comfort to know the person you love is not a sadistic sex
killer—so right there you have something to build on. I like the image
of you two making love: He's cranking up Cannibal Corpse's romantic
classic "Bloody Chunks"
while you're sticking in the ear buds of your iPod and desperately
turning up the volume on Michael Bublé's version of "I've Got You Under
My Skin." When you're not having sex, you say he's "generally
considerate," which is not exactly a declaration that "I've got you
under my skin/ I've got you deep in the heart of me/ So deep in my
heart, that you're really a part of me." But couples need to have sex,
and he finds it hard to perform unless you are forced to listen to
songs of female dismemberment. As you describe it, you get through
these sessions by trying to disassociate yourself from what is going
on. This does not sound like a formula for sustained intimacy. I don't
think you're being oversensitive about the gruesome nature of your
boyfriend's favorite erotic imagery, especially since you are supposed
to endure it. I have a hard time seeing where this relationship is
headed—it already sounds like a Cannibal Corpse.
—Prudie

I was actually going to come here to post this. Hilarious!

Required Fields wrote:

I was actually going to come here to post this. Hilarious!

The funniest part is the columnists knowledge of Cannibal Corpses music more than anything.

that's great, I would like to see her when her boyfriend starts screaming FRANTIC DISEMBOWELMENT! FRANTIC DISEMBOWELMENT!