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Sorry. Not sure why it turned out so big. 
But it is curious why this 1973 sci-fi novel is so in demand.

Is that the one about intergalactic sex slaves?
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7 hours ago, TheRealRonWeaver? said:

Sorry. Not sure why it turned out so big. 

But it is curious why this 1973 sci-fi novel is so in demand.

Whatever it is, it can’t be good.

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Yep. Not good. Fetishizing rape as a tool for controlled reproduction. That’s satan is alive and well and living in that book evil.

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The novel was described in a Vice article as "both comically amoral and insufferably pretentious. To be fair, these traits were common in 1970s sci-fi."[5]Becky Ferreira has described the novel as "highly unsettling", due to its depiction of rape of enslaved people, particularly teenage girls, and other coercive sex acts. The sex acts described are performed “for the dual purpose of entertainment and controlled procreation.” 5] Ferreira found disgusting the novel's fixation on the sexualization of adolescents. She notes that the adult characters are subjected to infantilization. The novel's dialogue includes "casually unsettling observations". She cites as an example a character remarking that pederasty lacks in "aesthetic appeal".[5] She views the novel as sexualizing minors and fetishizing rape, claiming that such elements were normalized in science fiction.[5]

Space Relations saw increased public attention after Barr's former employee Jeffrey Epstein died in a jail cell due to the similarities between the violent sexual depictions in Space Relations and Epstein's sex trafficking activities and obsessions. Sellers of the novel on eBay explicitly advertise its connection to Epstein in their descriptions of it.[5] It was also included as a key plot point in the season 4 finale of the legal drama The Good Fig

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14 hours ago, Red Five said:

These people cannot be this fucking naive.

It’s going to be like in Galaxy Quest when the aliens learned it was all just a tv show and it melted their brains.

Thanks for spoiling it, dude. 



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