Sextopia

By Cecilia Tan,

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Sir Thomas More coined the term Utopia and spawned the literary genre of utopian fiction, where each writer envisions his or her perfect society. Early utopian writers dreamed up alternate systems of government, economics, religion, family structure, and so on. But few followed their visions into the bedroom until the…


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This anthology showed me what is possible. Tan’s vision of what speculative fiction could be, inspired me. She wrote: “So I dream of a world, a country, a society, where honoring sexual desire is a part of the foundation upon which it is built, where celebrating eroticism and diversity of desire adds to the order of things.”

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