Alexandra
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello, I hope my question isn't offensive. But I was talking to another person who also read your books (I don't think she counts as a fan), and she complained that Miles thought about sex too much -- she was referring to the Borders of Infinity scene, I think. Do you think she's just underestimating how much the average guy thinks about it, since they supposedly think about it every few seconds?
Lois McMaster Bujold
While I doubt that the "every few seconds" factoid is correct -- men vary about sex quite as much as women do, if not necessarily in the same proportions (and over time as well as by individuals) -- I do think expecting book-characters to be comfortably asexual, or at least anything about their sexual lives well-hidden off-stage, is less likely to be found in modern writing than in the older, more censored sort that she might prefer.
As for how authentically guy-like Miles is, guy readers will have to speak to that.
Ta, L.
While I doubt that the "every few seconds" factoid is correct -- men vary about sex quite as much as women do, if not necessarily in the same proportions (and over time as well as by individuals) -- I do think expecting book-characters to be comfortably asexual, or at least anything about their sexual lives well-hidden off-stage, is less likely to be found in modern writing than in the older, more censored sort that she might prefer.
As for how authentically guy-like Miles is, guy readers will have to speak to that.
Ta, L.
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