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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Lois McMaster Bujold:
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I find that several typos I reported on the Dendarii Mail List did not make it into the printed books. These include safeLy where safeTy is meant in Penric's Mission and several in other books up to a name change, two real typos, and a probable missing quotation mark in Physicians of Vilnoc. Where is the best place to report such findings?
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