Thread: Sci-fi authors you (and I) should NEVER read
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Old 03-08-2011, 02:57 PM   #166
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
Your recollection is faulty. He doesn't "get" women at all until some time after his return. ("Get" used in the sense of "understand".) He's been raised by a species that has nothing in common with humanity, including sex. He eventually learns enough about humanity to engage in sex and romance with fair success, but they are never the point of his exercise.
It's too bad that Heinlein felt it necessary that the main character should learn that one particular thing about human sexuality.

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That's where a lot of folks got introduced to him. 12 is widely considered the "golden age" at which to be introduced to SF. It happened for me somewhat earlier, but that was happenstance.
Which makes that one particular thing even more horrible, as it is there potentially influencing young and impressionable minds.

Yeah, it's my opinion that some of Heinlein's writing is unconscionable, but I have distinct reasons for that opinion.

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