Re: sexualized characters

From: farah mendlesohn (fm7@YORK.AC.UK)
Date: Wed Jun 04 1997 - 01:01:19 PDT


On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:49:11 -0500 Michael Marc Levy wrote:

>
> For an interesting take on being "desexualized" see Greg Egan's
new (in
> the U.S.) novel Distress. One of the major characters is "asex," that
is
> the character has gone through surgery to remove all of "ver"
sexual
> organs. This becomes a real problem when the protagonist falls in
love
> with "ver."
>
> Mike Levy

I am curious, persumably the character is male or how else can all
"sex organs" be removed?

Farah



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