Return to Robert A. Heinlein main page Books-Commentary - Robert A. Heinlein Heinlein and polygamy: If you were in love, would you share your woman? Imagine if you were (or are) really in love with a woman; would you really want to share her with other guys? Even more so, would you mind if another guy got her pregnant, and then you had to raise the other guy's child? Click here to post a message        Bizzx6 posts on 10/3/2009 9:20:31 AM Not only would I, I have. Sex with love is great, sex without love is healthy exercise.        The commentator jgerstorff posts on 11/22/2005 8:03:58 AM I think a topic pertinant to this discussion is something Jubal says in Stranger: (paraphrased) sex is rarely used for the right reasons, we use it to hurt eachother, forget our own pain for a few minutes, or to defy another person. The reality is that while i personally share the opinion that to love elevates your ability to love I don't believe that the average person has either the emotional strength or maturity for such a relationship.        Anonymous posts on 11/21/2005 9:09:11 PM And, if you follow Heinleins logic as expressed in a number of his books, IT's HER CHOICE, NOT YOURS. So the question really is, will you deprive yourself of the partner you love, because you have to share her, or will you love her and let her love you? BTW DNA testing has proven that actual paternity by the putaive husband in most marriages is in only the 70-80% range, so you may be sharing her already, even if she keeps your fragile ego intact by not making an issue of it.        The commentator Shalon posts on 11/21/2005 6:09:38 PM Well i just saw a strangely phrased question. It asked if I were in love would I share my beloved and would I want to BE FORCED to raise the other guy's child. I ask this in return. Would you want the woman you loved to raise that child alone? Could you stand to see her hurting and aching for wont of you? As for the sharing thing I don't have an answer. I do believe that what he says is true. when you love your ability to love increases. You begin to see the beauty and lovability of ALL things around you, so that sometimes you might love her other partner almost as much as you love her. Click here to post a message Other Recent Robert A. Heinlein Discussions If Heinlein had written one more book.... Heinlein - To Sail Beyond the Sunset - Grandpa does the entire family? Do you agree with Heinlein's advocacy of Incest and Polygasms? 11/6/2009 3:45:26 AM Robert A. Heinlein 10/4/2009 4:43:53 PM Was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls a Tribute to Capitalism? 10/3/2009 9:49:40 AM Did Robert Heinlein believe in racial & genetic purity? 10/3/2009 9:23:32 AM Heinlein and polygamy: If you were in love, would you share your woman? 10/3/2009 9:20:31 AM Heinlein: Would you use a time machine to have sex with Mom? 8/19/2008 12:02:45 AM Was the protagonist of - The Door into Summer - a pedophile? 10/7/2006 4:11:24 PM Would you trust the UN with nuclear weapons as in Space Cadet? 5/27/2006 2:39:26 PM Did Rod Walker get dropped on his head from birth? 2/27/2006 9:13:32 AM How did the people in Mike's Cult avoid getting VD? 1/21/2006 10:20:38 PM Heinlein: Was Maureen Johnson a bad mother? 6/24/2005 4:03:02 PM What was Heinlein's views on military governments? 3/8/2005 9:25:58 PM Was Farmer in the Sky a Malthusian false alarm? 2/15/2005 10:34:12 PM Note: the views expressed here are only those of the posters.

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