Christian Slater as the rescuing father Nymphomaniac A worn-out adventurer finds herself taken to a safe haven, encouraged to rest up and when ready, tell her tale. It's of being by society's definitions, an outcast. Someone who in simply following her natural instincts would find herself condemnation-worthy to most. The listener -- himself unusual, for being in his case asexual, and for having an allegiance to great voices of literature which span far beyond the contemporary and into truths never normal to the fearful median in any culture -- assures her at the finish of her tale that she should take pride in how she has lived. To have done other than she had would have been to have untrue to her life-instinct. So she's like a Lestat, just being natural to the vampiric -- to his own particular nature, that is -- commendable that much more because prosaic bourgeois society is possessed of a highly villainous aspect. It doesn't want to understand the Other, ju...