[Lurker]

I can’t recommend Heinlein’s later works unless a person has very flexible views of morality.

Depends on what you mean by 'flexible'. I, like Heinlein, think that sin lies only in deliberately hurting someone else unnecessarily.

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[El Sordo]

That’s pretty much what I mean.

[narses]

” I, like Heinlein, think that sin lies only in deliberately hurting someone else unnecessarily. “

So much for 2,000 years of Christianity. Sigh.

[sinanju]

Heinlein wrote about sex the way Robert E. Howard (Conan) did. I.e. he imagined it a hell of a lot more than he did it. Writing about women dropping their clothes and parading about naked is not sex.

Howard died a virgin. Heinlein was married thrice. If it wasn’t for that one scene in Farnam’s Freehold I would have said he never had sex either.

Heinlein kind of, sort of fortuitously tripped over the sexual revolution with Stranger in a Strange Land (only a few years after being accused of being a militarist after Starship Troopers) and clumsily made the most of it.