Looks like you're in the UK. Did you know The Strategist is too? Each week, we sit down with one member of the extended Roy clan and try to give them a little professional nudge in the right direction. Last night on Succession , we got a deeper look at the sexual perversions and proclivities of our favorite little slime puppy Roman Roy.
At the same time, his sadomasochistic relationship with surrogate mother-boss figure Gerri is flourishing. Kristie Overstreet, psychotherapist and clinical sexologist:. Gerri has this dual role of nurturing him — really the only female we see nurturing him throughout the entire series— but who also stays engaged with him in this sort of consensual power exchange. Roman is very used to humiliation, in the way his dad speaks to him.
He learned that humiliation and that entitlement from a young age, and communicating in that way is really normal for him. I think it says a lot about his lack of connection growing up with any type of solid nurturing, connected presence in his home. And so why would he form that as he gets older, especially in a sexual relationship?
He has not had a normal life as far as dating and sexual expression, given the cult of the family and the cult of money and power. She ignites the sexual part for him in that power dynamic. Patti Britton, sexologist and founder of sexcoachu. In my opinion, this family is a den of sociopaths.
Nobody in the show is authentic, except maybe Logan Roy. Everyone else lives in a kind of caricature of themselves, and a projection of what they believe their father expects of them. So even the selection of a partner becomes a reflection of the family. We call this necrophilia in fetish terminology.
