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in order to have his patient feel the same security of satisfaction as,
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for example, fans of detective stories feel, stories where if you
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do not watch out the real murderer may turn out to be,
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to the fans' disgust, artistic originality.
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Who, for instance, would want a detective story without a single dialogue in it?
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Thus, in pornographic novels action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches.
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Artistic originality turns out to be the murderer,
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to the fans' disgust.
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Artistic originality here is likened to the murderer of convention.
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It's originality that destroys convention,
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and here it's given that frisson of being a criminal too.
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He's suggesting the criminality of real artistic innovation,