The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle, #6)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Members of a community, not elements of a collectivity, they were not moved by mass feeling; there were as many emotions there as there were people.

“Men are physically stronger,” the doctor asserted with professional finality. “Yes, often, and larger, but what does that matter when we have machines?

“prostitution,” which seemed merely to be a wider term, copulation in the economic mode.