frail blond neediness?

[Eway]

Dear Teachers,

I read these from True Pleasures by Lucinda Holdforth.

1.
"In the nearly ten years since her marriage she has taken several lovers, but none like twenty-year-old Jules, with his angelic curls and pink and white cheeks and frail blond neediness."

What is "frail blond neediness"?

2.
"He published titillating books, but a stable of writers secretly wrote them."

What does "titillating" mean here?

3.
"Willy rejected her work...He returned to his stable of ghost-writers, to his artistic feuds and his mistresses..."

What are "artistic feuds"?

[bhaisahab]

1.
"In the nearly ten years since her marriage she has taken several lovers, but none like twenty-year-old Jules, with his angelic curls and pink and white cheeks and frail blond neediness."

What is "frail blond neediness"? I would say slim, blond, fragile and vulnerable.

2.
"He published titillating books, but a stable of writers secretly wrote them."

What does "titillating" mean here? Sexually stimulating/suggestive.

3.
"Willy rejected her work...He returned to his stable of ghost-writers, to his artistic feuds and his mistresses..."

What are "artistic feuds"? Arguments about artistic merit between artists, writers etc.

[Eway]

Originally Posted by bhaisahab

1.
"In the nearly ten years since her marriage she has taken several lovers, but none like twenty-year-old Jules, with his angelic curls and pink and white cheeks and frail blond neediness."

What is "frail blond neediness"? I would say slim, blond, fragile and vulnerable.

2.
"He published titillating books, but a stable of writers secretly wrote them."

What does "titillating" mean here? Sexually stimulating/suggestive.

3.
"Willy rejected her work...He returned to his stable of ghost-writers, to his artistic feuds and his mistresses..."

What are "artistic feuds"? Arguments about artistic merit between artists, writers etc.

About the third one, isn't argument something people would want to avoid? Why would he return to those arguments? I don't quite get the idea...

[bhaisahab]

Originally Posted by Eway

About the third one, isn't argument something people would want to avoid? Why would he return to those arguments? I don't quite get the idea...

Not necessarily, sometimes intellectual argument can be stimulating and interesting.

[RonBee]

Some people try to avoid arguments. Others try to provoke them.