There's soft-core porn tossed in -- here and there -- for just about every interest except bestiality I guess. If those scenes had been wrapped by a coherent plot with believable dialog, I would probably have found them more than merely gratuitous. After all the recommendations I really expected more. At least there're no grammatical errors but there are a number of really jarring anachronisms that tended to throw me off just as I thought I might at last really get into the story. Much is made of the idea of honor, but only for men and love is indistinguishable from violence; that's too bad. I'm not going to be moving on to the next in the series. Maybe the movie will be better.