How does one portray an incestuous homosexual pedophile without being vulgar or offensive?
Actually, it's portrayed quite frequently on commercial broadcast TV, e.g., Law and Order SVU, without any offensive graphic dialogue. Yes, I know that'a s different medium, but the same approach -- more suggestive than graphic -- no doubt occurs frequently in literature.
Had Webb simply been prone to including steamy adult sex in his work, I'd never have questioned it. But while I believe he has the right to write the way he does, the fact that his work is peppered with graphic perversion should rightly cause people to stop and think before voting him into the US Senate.
Why would someone put incestuous homosexual pedophile behavior in a WAR NOVEL unless someone in his personal life actually obsessed about men doing such things to naked little boys...