Ahead of their time

[supergee]

Arthur C. Clarke dreamed up geostationary orbit; C.S. Lewis dreamed up teledildonics; and Vladimir Nabokov dreamed up “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.”

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[violsva]

C.S. Lewis dreamed up teledildonics

Excuse me, where??

[supergee]

"There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty [delicati] in their dreams of lust."--Out of the Silent Planet

[violsva]

WELP.

[bibliofile]

That adds an interesting twist to the plot of the new Lois and Clark show, where they have teenage offspring. Fertility treatments for delicate fucking flowers?