Well, I remember a different book than you a describing then, at least in spirit. I’d go reread it, but as said before, I’m pretty comfortable I’ve got it, and I don’t want to feel like I need to shower a few times after I get done with it.
I’m away from the question regarding the name of the horse, I guess. I suppose this should move to GD or something if the discussion continues (though I think I am done with it).
Ehh, don’t bother with the reread… you’re pretty much on target with the whole tone of the judge/young hooker plotline – I was just nitpicking with the details. He wasn’t resisting the situation that hard after all. And regardless of which character it was who was presenting the case for love reaching down beneath the legal age of consent, whoever it was who suggested it could well be the author speaking through proxy has a point.
(wanders away.)
As I recall, he said in the intro of one of his books (Pornucopia, maybe?) that he knew about a mutually consensual case of statutory rape, involving a friend of his, and wanted to work a sympathetic view of such cases into his books.
Or maybe it was just a result of those English boarding schools. 