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Angel fails to mention that having sex turns him into a psychopathic killer again
...because he had no idea that this was the case.
As for his actions between losing and regaining his soul, you have to consider the complicated nature of what a vampire is in the Buffyverse... When someone becomes a vampire, their 'soul', ie the bit that is really *them*, dies (and goes where? dunno - never been established - either oblivion or maybe the heaven Buffy might briefly have been in...). A demon then takes over not only their body, but also their memories, and a good deal of their personality, albeit in some twisted way. Angel was unique (until very recently), in that he has both, and the human soul keeps the demon in check, most of the time (Angel doesn't have to 'become' Angelus, ie lose his soul, in order to give in to some of those nasty impulses, and indeed one of the things season 2 (and some of season 1) of Angel dealt with was the tricky question of to what extent being a 'warrior', a man of violence, relies on having that demonic side). When he lost his soul, Angelus (the demon) remembered all of what he'd done while he'd had a soul, but interestingly, on both occasions on which Angel gained and regained a soul, he seemed initially disorientated and unable to remember what he'd done without a soul (because the human soul wasn't *there* at the time, and took a while to re-connect to the memories of that period which are presumably stored in his undead brain...).
But of course, culpability and responsibility (diminished or otherwise) are big thorny themes in both shows and are rarely ever resolved simply. Some would argue that occasionally they're glossed over when it suits the larger plot, but on a case by case basis I think I'd still dispute that 9 times out of 10...
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