Cersei and Taena

So I've just finished reading the Cersei chapter in which she tries to be Robert to Lady Merryweather. 

Damn, is it effective in bringing out the bitch in Cersei, but also in bringing out her desperation to defeat and un-man all of the...well, men, of her past.

I mean, when Martin compares her finger banging Taena to a boar goring her when she screams during orgasm, it's incredibly effective. Not because he goes into graphic detail, but, because like sex itself, he builds up to it and makes it possible to view that single sentence about the boar (its own paragraph) as the scene's own final climax.

How does he do this? With some simple foreshadowing earlier in the chapter, and then the gradual easing into it when Cersei lightly cups Taena's breast before toying with her nipple. That's all it takes. He plants the idea, waters it, and then lets it grow into the line about the boar and Taena's scream of pleasure.

Of course, there's also the matter of Cersei's reflecting on Robert's own wine-soaked adventures in bed that builds the psychological impact of the line and the final scene of the chapter in general. And that's something that's been brewing for a while along Cersei's character arc.

Plus, the way she reflects on how easy it was to get Robert off puts a really creepy spin on the bonus of swallowing. Just saying.