My online research has failed me, so I’m hoping the Dope can help me out. I’m trying to find a book I lost years ago. Sometime prior to 2004 I bought two sex-themed SF anthologies. One was “Alien Sex” http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Sex-Masters-Science-Fiction/dp/0451451422/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332197093&sr=8-2 The other one I can’t recall, but am fairly certain the word “sex” was in the title. There are two stories I remember well enough to summarize:
In what I believe was the first story in the collection, the narrator is a man who is a member of a group of people who engage in group cybersex. The way this works is that one male and one female member of the group gets together to physically have sex while the remaining members remotely “plug in” to the couple. The experience each member has is of simultaneously feeling the sexual pleasure of all the other members. The physical partners are rotated each session. When the narrator begins to focus exclusively on one of the females, the group is concerned and takes steps to dissuade him, such as changing his scheduled physical session with the particular female to another partner. He tells the female he is in love with her, to which she replies that she is in love with him, too; just as much as she is in love with Steve and April and Ted and George and Tina, etc. The story culminates with the narrator’s attempt to forcibly isolate the two of them during a cybersex session. This is taboo, and the entire group blocks him permanently. He is left alone and heartbroken.
In the second one the narrator is a popular children’s television show host. I believe he wears an animal costume and is called “Uncle (something)”. It is told in the first person. The story begins with him in jail on charges of child molestation, of which he is certainly guilty. The narrator bemoans the unfairness of prosecuting him “just cause he digs kids.” The narrator’s prepubescent “girlfriend”, Little Suzie, spearheads a large social movement known as KidLib designed to free the narrator from jail. Eventually the children of America are granted the full legal rights of adults, including the right to consent to sex. The narrator is overjoyed, and so proud of his little girlfriend. Here’s the twist: his joy turns to abject horror when he is released from jail and reunited with Little Suzie. She has chosen to excercise her legal right to be “adult,” and has gotten extensive cosmetic surgery including large breast implants. She is wearing high heels and makeup and is no longer the sweet child he was attracted to.
Sound familiar?
