True Love's Protection

[LaraBeck]

IIRC, there is WoJ somewhere that having sex isn't essential to get the protection; it's just the easiest and most-common way for it to happen.

There's also recent WOJ (from last year or January) where he says that both needs are necessary, the physical and the spiritual. So... I dunno if Jim is 100% sure himself how this is supposed to work. Not True Love but True Love Protection™, the second one being the byproduct of physically acting on the first one.

[g33k]

... Connie didn't kill Irwin because he had too much life force?  Really?  You'd think it would be a banquet for Connie's Hunger Demon and it would want even more.  I thought that was the point when Harry fed Lara's Hunger demon, so is Connie now slave to Irwin? ...

Connie was feeding on Irwin's "life-force."  He just has a huge amount of it... more than her Hunger was capable of eating.
Harry was feeding (since Harry kept control, I'd suggest he was force-feeding) Lara's Hunger with magic:  the raw stuff of Creation itself (and, likely, a dusting of Winter (or so says Mab; and if she says it, then she believes it (though she can still be mistaken))).

It's like the difference between a poppy-seed bagel, and heroin.

But... your point isn't entirely wrong, I think.

I don't think Irwin's life-force can "enslave" Connie, precisely; but I suspect something on the habituation-addiction spectrum is at least theoretically possible (fortunately for Connie, Irwin is genuinely a good guy, and unlikely to take advantage if it happens!) .
 

[g33k]

... After Twelve Months, I have a creeping feeling that the conclusion of the Dresden Files will reveal that the entire series was 'True Love Conquers the Outsiders.' 

Doubtful.

"True Love" conquers the Raith-style lust-Hunger.
But it takes True Bravery to conquer a Skavis, True Hope to conquer a Malvora.

Those are specifically Hunger-Demon Outsiders, however:  not "Outsiders" in general; we've never seen any of that being particularly potent against other Outsiders.

I think the key won't be "True Love" but mortal "Free Will."

[g33k]

There's also recent WOJ (from last year or January) where he says that both needs are necessary, the physical and the spiritual ...

Huh.
If you could turn that one up for me, I'd be grateful!

[Dina]

I remember clearly like many years ago there was a WoJ that said that sex was needed for achieving the Protection because something something related with the potential of creating life. Then, later, someone asked him if that meant homosexual couples could not be protected, so Jim backpedaled, mentioned that Protection is not an exact science, that it could be achieved by not penetrative sex and things like that. So, he mostly forgot about the creating life thing.