Safe Sex is No Fun

[Adam Lou Stephanides]

On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 
> Adam:
> 
> My characterization of the thematic requirements of GR for so much
> sex was incomplete. It was more than the rocket, as you say.
> 
> Are you also saying that all the perversity is explained by thematic
> requirements alone?

I wouldn't go that far. A lot of it is undoubtedly due to the deliberate
excess which characterizes the book.
> 
> If sex controls men, what controls women?
> 
> Love?

I'm not sure; GR doesn't seem to have all that much on the subject of
women's relationship to Them.  Katje is the woman most closely tied to
Them, and her motivation seems to be safety.

--Adam