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Subject: Re: feminist sf/fantasy
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 10:40:00 EDT
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John Norman's Gor series certainly treats women in a different
light than most authors, but it isn't exactly a feminist light.
The Gor series started as a pretty typical Swords and Muscles
book with a strong masculine supremacist bent. As the books
kept coming out, this element kept getting stronger until the
books turned into some wierd softcore bondage pornography.
On Gor (which is on the other side of the sun from the earth)
women are basically property, and enjoy being abused. The books
have gotten very strange, and were never very good to begin with.

"Norman" (it's a pseudonym) has published a book on sexuality.
The subtitle might be "50 ways to tie your lover". Recommended
for a laugh, but too strange to take seriously.

The stuff isn't art, and it isn't amusing, but if you are in the
mood for something different and unpleasant, you might look at one.


		chris
		Chris Kostanick
		decvax!vortex!ism780!ico!chris
		ucbvax!ucla-cs!ism780!ico!chris

Nope, i stopped buying them after book three.