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Title: The Cat Who Can't Get It Up
Review: As a boy, the new Boy Scout "Boy's Life" magazine with a Heinlein story was a red letter day in my life. By age 12, I had read everything in my local library by the "Dean" and convinced my mother to get her library card so I could check the adult Heinlein books out till I was old enough to get my own card.By my 20's I was reading some of Heinlein's classics for the 4th or 5th time.Then I bought "Cat". It was the first book I've ever thrown in the trash unfinished.I'd noticed a tendency of Heinlein to get more and more sexually explicit in his books and figured it was the "007" effect, more public demand for those type books and the sexual revolution. In "Cat", the explicitness was more "I can't do this stuff anymore so let me share my fantasies with you."Since then, I look back in regret at the loss of a great hard science writer of fiction to the old man that wrote sexual fantacy in the league of "Barbarella."
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