Seen from this viewpoint, sf has been an accurate reflector of popular prejudices and feelings about sex over the years – especially in stories at the Pulp-magazine end of the sf spectrum, where the fantasies and Taboos of the day are encapsulated more clearly than in sophisticated works.Īn important theme of pulp sf – sex as beastliness – appeared much earlier. Before the 1960s there was little sf that consciously investigated sexual questions but, as with all popular literatures, what is implied is often as important as what is openly put forward. Traditionally sf has been a puritanical and male-oriented literature. It discusses neither procreation nor the various inventive methods of Alien sexual reproduction devised by sf writers.
This entry is primarily about human sexual relationships and sexual stereotypes as themes in sf i.e., it is primarily about Psychology and Sociology.
