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We Asked The Author Of That Kim Davis Inspired Erotica ‘Why?!’

This book is a thing that happened and we 'had' to know more.

There are things in this world that are exactly the opposite of what you asked for. And, at first, we thought this Kim Davis inspired erotic novella -- "Kim Goes To Jail: An Erotic Story" -- was one of them.

But, after a quick chat with the book's author, Lilith St. Augustine, we're starting to come around. The novella is a quick and dirty tale of "a simple, small-town woman who finds herself thrown in jail in a dispute over religion and sexuality." But, once St. Augustine's caricature of Kim lands behind bars, things get a lot sexier than a rally hosted by Mike Huckabee.

MTV News heard your (semi-horrified) cries and hit up St. Augustine to ask what you were all dying to know -- Whaaaat?! and Whyyyyy?!

"I had recently published my previous novella and was thinking of what to write next," St. Augustine told MTV News. "In watching what's been going on in the news, I thought it'd be amusing to imagine a character who's sent to a, shall we say, very sexually active women's prison and thus is suddenly surrounded by something she apparently finds so repulsive. And then to wind up being a party to that sort of activity herself; well, I found the idea too ironic and amusing not to pursue."

That's right. Sweet, sweet irony can be an awesome motivator for art -- not to mention the opportunity to satirize the idealogical and media circus around the controversial Kim Davis case.

Who wants to join our book club?

"Parody/satire can be powerful and effective tools in shining a light on things that deserve criticism," she said. "I'm not saying my story is some high form of the art in that regard or is going to bring about huge changes in the world, but still I hope the social-commentary aspect is at least visible to some extent underneath all the sex and jokes."

Erotica is known for camp-tastic scenes and dialogue, far-fetched ideas and irreverent takes on modern romance. But, in this case, it gave St. Augustine the chance to take those sexier (if totally NSFW) socially conscious ideas for a spin -- by bringing her home-grown homophobe character into a situation that so totally goes against what she's been preaching.

"If we're just speaking to the context of the story being told here, then certainly erotica is great vessel since it really let's you go all the way with, for example, the idea of a homophobe coming face to face with her least preferred form of sexuality. I mean, this was kind of set up perfectly."

Okay, we're listening now.

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