History YMMV / Darkover

** Especially the way Lord Dyan Ardais, who grooms, sexually harrasses and abuses teenage boys in his role as teacher/officer at a military academy, gets away pretty much without punishment beyond reprimands[[note]] (And one of the boys he was harrassing is even made his official heir as a kind of 'recompense', thus giving Lord Ardais opportunity to abuse him again. Which he doesn't do, because 'he's seen the error of his ways' - because habitual sexual abusers totally aren't sociopaths and thus incapable of remorse...)[[/note]] ''really'' prevents some former fans from enjoying ''The Heritage of Hastur'' any longer, now that the parallels with the author's husband[[note]] (A 'pederasty activist' involved with NAMBLA who had multiple convictions for child molestation to his name, some of which happened before they got married and Bradley admitted that she knew about that.)[[/note]] have come to light. Which is a shame, because otherwise that book was very FairForItsDay with regards to queer male representation and a subplot that seems to come straight from the "Me Too" era. Originally, the novel seemed to just take the 'realistic' route where the rich and powerful get away with their crimes, and after all, the abuse is clearly depicted as very harmful and traumatic for the victims. But in hindsight, it comes across like the author is trying to say that the perpetrators of such sexual abuse of minors are just misguided and deserve a second chance... Or even that acting on ephebophile desires is okay as long as the teenager is 'consenting', given that Lord Ardais later got a young male concubine who was something of a sugar baby (i.e. he wasn't from the upper class and saw this as his ticket to a comfortable life) and not much older than the pubescent boys at the military academy were.

** Especially the way Lord Dyan Ardais, who grooms, sexually harrasses and abuses teenage boys in his role as teacher/officer at a military academy, gets away pretty much without punishment beyond reprimands[[note]] (And one of the boys he tried to abuse is even made his official heir as a kind of 'recompense', thus giving Lord Ardais opportunity to abuse him again. Which he doesn't do, because 'he's seen the error of his ways' - because habitual sexual abusers totally aren't sociopaths and thus incapable of remorse...)[[/note]] ''really'' prevents some former fans from enjoying ''The Heritage of Hastur'' any longer, now that the parallels with the author's husband have come to light. Which is a shame, because otherwise that book was very FairForItsTime with regards to queer male representation and a subplot that seems to come straight from the "MeToo" era. Originally, the novel seemed to just take the 'realistic' route where the rich and powerful get away with their crimes, and after all, the abuse is clearly depicted as very harmful. But in hindsight, it comes across like the author is trying to say that the perpetrators of such sexual abuse of minors are just misunderstood and deserve a second chance... Or even that acting on ephebophile desires is okay as long as the teenager is 'consenting', given that Lord Ardais later got a young male boytoy who was something of a sugar baby (i.e. he wasn't from the upper class and saw this as his ticket to a comfortable life) and not much older than the pubescent boys at the military academy were.

* HarsherInHindsight: Some of the sexual details of the series (like the preteen girl being talked into sleeping with her brother) became a lot more problematic after the stories about Bradley's private life became known.