"I remember one reviewer who used to complain about the
projection of modern sexual mores onto tales set in the first
half of the century
(before the sexual revolution of the 1960s), when in reality
no-sex-before-marriage was a rather strict norm."
Kent
"It was a pretty strict norm in reality, but was it in
fiction, especially pulp fiction? I see no lack of willing
women in Gold Medals. for instance, many of which were
written prior to the '60s."
Mark
True enough. But the difference between sex scenes then and
now were that those were deliberate (and shocking) sexual
fantasy, whereas sex is now more accepted and far from being
fantasy to include it in a story, it would seem unnatural to
leave it out.
Kent
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Kent Johnson San Francisco
kjohnson@slip.net
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