Forced Mate was pretty much a spoof. Insufficient Mating Material isn't intended to be.
I didn’t feel that the same joke would work a second time, so when I was asked to write a sequel, I turned to an underdog hero and put him in a Green Acres meets Survivorman (with sex) situation, where he is shot down on an alien tropical island with a spoiled, bad-tempered, fashion conscious Princess who cannot and will not take off her wet court gown to save her life.
I didn’t feel that the same joke would work a second time, so when I was asked to write a sequel, I turned to an underdog hero and put him in a Green Acres meets Survivorman (with sex) situation, where he is shot down on an alien tropical island with a spoiled, bad-tempered, fashion conscious Princess who cannot and will not take off her wet court gown to save her life.