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With an assist from lsanderson, nellorat and I now have our Nasfic memberships.

Progress

Fifty years ago, science fiction stories were allowed to include sex if it was necessary to the plot. Because that requirement was laid on some of the most imaginative people in the world, there were a lot of ways in which sex became necessary to the plot.

Times have changed, and now sex in sf is somewhere between gratuitous and mandatory, just as in the mainstream. Now only homosex has to be necessary to the plot.

Thanx to Making Light.

Differently sane idea of the day

Elena Kagan, Secret Muslim

Thanx to Shakesville

Graphics for graphics' sake

The graphic designer and the missing cat

Thanx to andrewducker

Before Kinsey

19th-century women’s sex survey rediscovered

Thanx to rm

The message

What Disney princesses are really telling your kids.

Thanx to redstapler