[lazide]

Good point! Heinlein was not known for being subtle on topics like this.

I can’t figure out if he seemed to be a sex crazed maniac because he had a lot of sex and drugs, or a sex crazed maniac because he never got laid. Probably the latter. A lot of the other attitudes follow…

One of life’s little mysteries.

[moloch-hai]

That, anyway, is not a mystery.

Heinlein had a medical condition that progressively blocked blood flow in his brain. He increasingly needed themes that would increase his blood pressure to be able to write at all. He finally got surgery.