Re: [*FSFFU*] height and gender bodies

From: Neil Rest (NeilRest@TEZCAT.COM)
Date: Thu Sep 11 1997 - 06:53:28 PDT


"Anitra E. Heiberg Lykke" <anitrae@STUD.ISV.UIT.NO> wrote:
>Edrie J Sobstyl wrote:
>
>"I too have found in sf an exploration of what it would be like to be a woman
>and to have a body that you could actually USE - as something OTHER
>than a thing to seduce or reproduce (not that those aren't perfectly
>good uses, but they do tend to limit women)."
>
> This discussion on body size and height, reminded me of a short story in
>where men or women could change their sex.

Have you read the early John Varley stories? Many of them are in the same
setting where sex-change is a minor out-patient surgery people have done at
will.

(Incidentally, Varley is unusually tall.)

Neil Rest



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