Audrey is being treated as a shrew because she is one. A person can have genuine principles and still be a pain in the ass. Why she would be attracted to him against her principles? Because attraction can be purely physical. The most attracted I've ever been to a guy was to a guy I despised — yet many years later,…

I think he's developing some character, too.

You put it so elegantly! Your statement about the difference between second thoughts and being raped is exactly on point.

I'm just wondering: Are all the posters who hate the French professor under 30? Because I don't get the contempt at all. She hosts her students, though what she gets out of it besides the sex is beyond me.She loves her family, but still wants to get laid. Is that so wrong?

I am no doubt a troglodyte, but I am bewildered by all the versions of what qualifies as consent. I honestly am. Since I'm old, it's academic for me, but does consent really have to be reiterated endlessly in order to be legitimate? Is there no point at which a woman old enough to be sexually active is not presumed…

Guess I'm a majority of one here. I don't have patience with Audrey because I'm old and she reminds me of some young women I've been around who were just enormous pains. And political correctness, as enforced by and for entitled white folks like me, just makes me tired. I read something long ago announcing that a…

I'm new here. I think Noah is physically very desirable, but from what I can tell, his character is very selfish, sexually and otherwise. Audrey, IMO, is just a juvenile, garden-variety, self-absorbed, pompous pain in the ass. IOW, prime writer material.

Too true! I found this site by accident, looking to see who the flock Fraser played on "The Affair," because I couldn't think of anyone. JMJ! I thought *I* had aged badly.