Absolutely beautiful read, I thoroughly enjoyed Love and Dehumanization. The desire to be love and accepted when you can't help but see yourself as never being able to fit in, contrasted with the reclamation of what from the outset could be seen as ritualistic sexual self harm to cope - fully embracing that and letting go of the guilt and allowing yourself to accept that as a part of you, and that if you let them, other people can and will understand you. The world created was also really interesting as I initially wasn't expecting it. The very concept of life and death as this expendable exchange, and the complete distancing of humanity when one allows themselves to become a monster... My thoughts are a bit jumbled because I'm still very much hot off the heals of reading through but I really must sing my praises to this work I found on a whim.
EDIT: I don't know if this counts as a spoiler or not but I want to say the revelations in chapter 3 and the exploration of that was something I wasn't expecting at all but it had me absolutely hooked - super refreshing I've never seen it handled with such grace before especially within the exploration of sexuality and the balance for control.