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To: Lurker

Heinlein wrote about sex the way Robert E. Howard (Conan) did. I.e. he imagined it a hell of a lot more than he did it. Writing about women dropping their clothes and parading about naked is not sex.

Howard died a virgin. Heinlein was married thrice. If it wasn’t for that one scene in Farnam’s Freehold I would have said he never had sex either.

Heinlein kind of, sort of fortuitously tripped over the sexual revolution with Stranger in a Strange Land (only a few years after being accused of being a militarist after Starship Troopers) and clumsily made the most of it.


61 posted on 05/18/2010 8:26:39 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju

RAH was a twisted socialist, an EPIC disaster.


65 posted on 05/18/2010 8:42:19 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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