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jendra
Since: Jul, 2010
2011-03-02 18:05:37
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
http://www.amazon.com/World-Inside-Robert-Silverberg/dp/0765324326/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299117769&sr=1-1
DaibhidC
Since: Jan, 2001

Went to add this to Free-Love Future and suddenly realised I didn't remember what it was called or who it was by.
It's a Free-Love Future where people are pretty much expected to wander into each others' houses for sex at night. The point of the book is that a society like that would develop its own sexual "deviencies". One of the main characters is criticized by his wife becuase he keeps sleeping with the same woman, not because he's attracted to her, but because he's attracted to her brother — it's the fact he won't just sleep with the brother that's considered abnormal, and she attributes this hangup to him studying 20th century sociology.
I think there's a guy visiting from another society who keeps an open mind about the sex, but gets very embarassed when the couple have a blazing row.
And there's one scene where the sociologist, trying to understand 20th century sex-based profanity, repeats the f- and c- words over and over, comparing them with the modern equivilents "top" and "slot".
Got it from the library in the 1990s.
Edited by DaibhidC