Why?
my reaction to your question is 
there's a lot of reasons. he was molested, he was cross dressing, animals being beaten, the constant hardcore drug use, beating the shyt out of women, etc. and all of this being told from a very cool and casual standpoint. i feel kind of like alex in a clockwork orange. all the ultraviolence was enough to put me off the shyt.
I've gone through this book many times and I'm not remembering the cross dressing?
C'mon man!
That ain't real cross man dress THAT'S HUSTLIN'!
wanting to be a different gender is totally different.
Since when have you been running cons? Or do you?
