The Slutfest that is Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series

Laurell K. Hamilton has the potential to be a great author and write wonderful books, I know, I've read some great stuff by her.

But about eight books into the Anita Blake series (#8 is Blue Moon) the series goes from being an amazing set of supernatural mysteries with heavy flirting and where supernatural beings have their own cultural uniqueness that is explored a little more with each book into a quest for new ways to force Anita to bypass her moral standards and engage in sexual activity as much as possible.

The plot itself became a device for manuevering Anita situations that require her to have gratuitous sex, and conversations & monologues that approve of and justify her actions.

Concurrently with these changes (that include BDSM and sex with strangers) started occurring, the author herself stopped thanking her "husband Gary" and began thanking "J. who says yes more than he says no" and "doesn't make me feel like a freak." The mysterious J. is later credited as her husband Jonathan.

Also at the same time, she unveiled a new series about a Faerie Princess, and couched the Faerie Culture as being openly and aggressively sexual in nature.

I can understand wanting to put your newfound desires, urges, and deviant (this is a scientific word meaning "not in keeping with the norm") sexual fantasies into your work, as authors and artists can be inspired by their emotions and not just their imagination. And while I openly applaud how Hamilton uses a culture and society to incorporate them into her newer series, I am extremely dissappointed in her choice to make the Anita Blake series 2/3 sexual activity + 1/3 plot.

Why? Because for 8 books we read that Anita won't have sex without commitment, that her morals and standards are vitally important to her, and that she won't put someone in the position of her college fiance, to give them what they want and be dropped. And then she has 5-somes, threesomes, orgasms in public, flogging her submissive lover in a public setting, going up on a strip club stage in a short skirt and no panties to participate in her submissive lover's erotic performance. It's just not in keeping with the character, and it's not even mixed into the story, it dominates the new books.

I guess I can sum it up simply that I'm dissappointed with her using her libido to write the more recent parts of the Anita Blake series instead of her brain.

Edit:
One additional thing. I noticed that with her increase in sexual content, more mistakes have slipped in such as he/she mistakes, and accidental name-swaps. Kinda like her editor and beta-readers are trying to skip the massive amounts of sex and get to the plot.