So far as I remember, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel novels are pretty much devoid of sex, possibly because the time and places visited are so often insalubrious.
I've read "Doomsday Book" and 'having sex with plague raddled Englishfolk' is, I agree, not the main focus of that book. I haven't read "To Say Nothing of the Dog", so don't know, but did read her Blitz novels and again the romance element is downplayed.
Let us not forget Robert A Heinlein’s All You Zombies in which an Intersex man goes back in time before his gender reassignment operation and impregnates himself ( or should that be herself?)
Thank you for pointing out this unsavoury aspect of time travel stories. I read Michael Moorcock’s Behold The Man where the protagonist travels back in time to find Jesus, finds him to be mentally disabled and has sex with Mary and takes up the role of messiah himself. Talk about a messiah complex!
So far as I remember, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel novels are pretty much devoid of sex, possibly because the time and places visited are so often insalubrious.
I've read "Doomsday Book" and 'having sex with plague raddled Englishfolk' is, I agree, not the main focus of that book. I haven't read "To Say Nothing of the Dog", so don't know, but did read her Blitz novels and again the romance element is downplayed.
I believe in "To Say Nothing of the Dog" there is a bit of unrequited lust.
Let us not forget Robert A Heinlein’s All You Zombies in which an Intersex man goes back in time before his gender reassignment operation and impregnates himself ( or should that be herself?)
Quite right! I should have included that.
Thank you for pointing out this unsavoury aspect of time travel stories. I read Michael Moorcock’s Behold The Man where the protagonist travels back in time to find Jesus, finds him to be mentally disabled and has sex with Mary and takes up the role of messiah himself. Talk about a messiah complex!
Ah yes: I could have included Moorcock's novel.
A unique interpretation.