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[[Image:Boyd-1970-SexAndHighCommand.jpg|thumb|right|150px|1970 edition]] | |||
'''Sex and the High Command''' is a 1970 semi-humorous novel by [[John Boyd]]. | '''Sex and the High Command''' is a 1970 semi-humorous novel by [[John Boyd]]. | ||
In ''Sex and the High Command'', a drug is invented (Vita-Lerp) that permits [[parthenogenesis|parthenogenetic reproduction]], and acts like a viagra for women to boot. Men are superfluous, and a women's movement decides to eliminate most or all of them. The protagonist, Captain Benjamin Franklin Hansen, is forced to choose between the High Command, which is seeking a military solution to the women's movement, and his love for and trust in his wife and daughter. | In ''Sex and the High Command'', a drug is invented (Vita-Lerp) that permits [[parthenogenesis|parthenogenetic reproduction]], and acts like a viagra for women to boot. Men are superfluous, and a women's movement decides to eliminate most or all of them. The protagonist, Captain Benjamin Franklin Hansen, is forced to choose between the High Command, which is seeking a military solution to the women's movement, and his love for and trust in his wife and daughter. | ||
It is a good-natured take on the sex wars. | It is a good-natured male perspective take on the sex wars. For a similar approach from decades earlier, see [[Robert Chambers]]' ''[[The Gay Rebellion]]''. | ||
[[Category:1970 publications]] | [[Category:1970 publications]] | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
[[Category:Works with all-female species]] | |||
[[Category:Works with sex wars]] | |||
Latest revision as of 17:37, 7 April 2008
Sex and the High Command is a 1970 semi-humorous novel by John Boyd.
In Sex and the High Command, a drug is invented (Vita-Lerp) that permits parthenogenetic reproduction, and acts like a viagra for women to boot. Men are superfluous, and a women's movement decides to eliminate most or all of them. The protagonist, Captain Benjamin Franklin Hansen, is forced to choose between the High Command, which is seeking a military solution to the women's movement, and his love for and trust in his wife and daughter.
It is a good-natured male perspective take on the sex wars. For a similar approach from decades earlier, see Robert Chambers' The Gay Rebellion.