What is the culture that encourages female bodybuilders?
There are a million reasons why a woman might go into bodybuilding. The one thing they all eventually will have in common, if they take it to the extreme described in the book, is that they will live in an altered state of reality. Bodybuilders are a different breed. I know that when I was competing I didn’t really relate to “normal” people. I just didn’t look at them. It was like bulls and rabbits. Bulls don’t notice rabbits; rabbits don’t have anything to do with their world. There’s a lot of emotional support within the bodybuilding world. For every drug-induced change a bodybuilder goes through, there’s someone to encourage them no matter how dangerous that choice might be. There is a lot of unusual sexual activity in Chemical Pink. Can you discuss that? The truth is that I was just as surprised by the weird sex as anyone else. I created this character, Charles Henry Worthington III, and then he basically took over. I didn’t go into this book thinking I’d write about a sexual perve
