From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More S*X, was Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:03:33 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

And here I thought it would be safe to hand the McCaffrey stuff over to my
innocent little girl!

Said little girl asked several months ago how the seed from the daddy got to
the seed from the mommy and was not content until she had received a fairly
graphic explanation of intercourse. Maybe McCaffrey's OK after all...

Erica
ask to see picture of little girl w/McC. at last UK Worldcon

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:22 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More S*X, was Re: Interesting Inventions

Michael Walsh wrote:
>
> > leeandalexis at hotmail.com 04/02/02 01:07PM >>>>
> >Big problem is that people try to apply current standards to
> >"historical" events, without understanding the attitudes of the times.
> >For an SF example, why is there no sex in pulp SF in the 1940s and
> >1950s?
> >
>
> Well, there were the"spicy" pulps, which promised a lot, and delivered . .
=
> . well, see: http://www.robertweinberg.net/pulps.htm for some cover shots.
=
>  And here:   http://www.lanset.com/lurch/pulp/spmystery.html.
>
> Now, if you mean the introduction of the "F" word . . . well, according to
=
> Langford:
>
> "But who would be first to sneak the Big F-Word into the austere pages of
=
> US magazines? Robert Silverberg, that's who.
>
> The swinging 60s were nearly over, but still no rude words were permitted
=
> in Galaxy. Then Silverberg got handed one of those odd magazine
assignments=
> , to write some fiction  to go with this cover painting showing gigantic =
> periscopes. Easy -- he shoved them into the story (`Going Down Smooth', =
> 1968) as one of the hallucinations suffered by an insane  computer. A =
> foul-mouthed insane computer, that said:
>
> 1000110
> 1010101
> 1000011
> 1001011"
>
> (I guess that would constitute the dirty bits.)
>
> mjw

Near as I can tell, the first one to sneak one past Kay Tarrant in
Analog was Anne McCaffrey, in "A Womanly Talent" (February 1969).  It
has a quite explicit description of an act of sexual intercourse.  It's
done so subtly that it's not until later that some part of your brain
wakes up and says "Hey, wait a minute!"

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."