"Sexual desire," writes Dr. Erich Fromm, in his book, The Art of Loving, "Aims at fusion - and is by no means only a physical appetite, the relief of a painful tension. But sexual desire can be stimulated by the anxiety of loneliness, by the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt and even to destroy, as much as it can be stimulated by love. It seems that sexual desire can easily blend with and be stimulated by any strong emotion, of which love is only one." The urge to kill was another, and Mike seemed more than amply equipped to handle both.