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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers,net.motss
Subject: Re: Should book ads disclose sexual slant?
Message-ID: <223@birtch.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 16:19:40 EST
Article-I.D.: birtch.223
Posted: Mon Dec 30 16:19:40 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Dec-85 18:44:18 EST
References: <4729@hlexa.UUCP>
Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
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Organization: The Real Estate Conspiracy
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Keywords: gay sex
Xref: lsuc net.books:1219 net.sf-lovers:5618 net.motss:458
Summary: 

In article <4729@hlexa.UUCP> hsf@hlexa.UUCP (Henry Friedman) writes:
1) Should ads for novels at least suggest whether the sex/romance
>   is predominantly straight or gay?  (I don't think this would be
>   necessary if the main themes are not romantic, such as novels
>   about social/political oppression.)

Only if you are a prude or a homofobe. Sex is sex, romance is romance; if
you enjoy reading about "straight" sex without feeling "naughty" or guilty you
you should be able to enjoy a love story about two(?) individuals regardless of
their sex. 
What DOES irk me is sex between alien species....

>2) Should it make any difference? In other words, should it have
>   mattered to me?

I don't see why... Sex is sex....

>3) Was it my fault for not remembering or knowing that Delany's
>   sf writing has a gay slant?

Only if you object to homosexuality getting "equal time".

>4) Do I have a point in objecting to the way the book club advertised
>   the book?

No. It's like objecting to not mentioning any demonic, satanic, pagan, magical 
subject matter.  It sonds like PMRC's record labeling system. And we all know
how silly that is ;-)

>5) Was the book such a work of creative genious that it transcended
>   such considerations?

Don't know, have not read it (yet?).
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