"Venus and the Seven Sexes" is a science fiction story by American writer William Tenn. It was first published in the anthology The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, and Other Stories (Avon Publishing) in 1949, and then in 1953 in the anthology Science-Fiction Carnival by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds (Shasta Publishers). The story was reprinted in 1968 in The Seven Sexes, an anthology of William Tenn's short stories published by Ballantine Books. It also appeared in the 2001 anthology of William Tenn's works titled Immodest Proposals, published by NESFA Press. Plot On the planet Venus, the native Plookhs —who require the participation of seven different sexes in order to reproduce — are corrupted by human film director Hogan Shlestertrap. Reception Don D'Ammassa has described it as "quite funny", while Nick Gevers considered it to be a "scathing [analysis] of militarism and cargo-cult culture possessing great bite even now". Io9 called it "off-kilter" and "humorous. Inc. editor George Gendron has compared the Plookh reproductive cycle to the difficulties of running a startup. References External links 1949 short stories Science fiction short stories Short stories set on Venus Works by William Tenn Avon (publisher) books