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> "How Americans edit sex out of my writing"

Reading, I would say that the author isn't really "European" but rather a sex pest trying to sell an American audience the exoticism of "Europe."

(See Neil Gaiman and the rest of that gang for recent more specificity.)

The representation isn't genuine but assumed. I'm not sure you picked the best example.




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