There can't be any doubt that Robert A. Heinlein has dropped more than a little ink endorsing the idea of group marriages and incest. In Stranger In A Strange Land, we meet Mike the Martian, who sets up communities where everyone is married to everyone else and drops their pants (if they're wearing anything) at the drop of a hat. In the Lazarus Long books we see much the same arrangements.
But group marriages, even if idiolized by Heinlein, can't work in reality. Some husbands will invariably prefer some wives in the group over others and vice veras. And what about children? If one husband makes all the children, you're gonna tell me that the other husbands will enjoy raising them and taking care of them? Even assignment of mundane tasks, such as who cooks dinner and takes out the garbage, can lead to fights, much less who sleeps with whom on Tuesdays.
And what's with the incest? Heinlein implies as long as there are no genetic problems that it's A-ok. Lazarus constantly slept with his daughters and other relatives. But is this really ok? Doesn't the concept of Parent-child change when the parent is doing the child?
What does this all mean? Did Heinlein fantasize about having sex with his mother, father, or children? Isn't it sort of odd that this concept keeps popping up in his books, over over? By the time of his last book, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Lazarus's famil was big enough to fill a football stadium.
posts on 5/8/2006 2:05:41 PM
His juvie "Red Planet". It hooked me on Heinlein. What about you?
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