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== Literature ==
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s works have always had some sexual content. Then he started writing books like ''[[
* [[Anne McCaffrey]] is an example characterized not so much by her works than by her lectures. When asked how two straight male [[Dragonriders of Pern|dragonriders]] could fall in love [[Suddenly Sexuality|just because their dragons did,]] she famously recounted how anyone could turn gay under the right circumstances, as a friend of hers had after an... encounter... with a tent peg.
* [[Orson Scott Card]] started tracking this way with essays about how gay marriage was a sham and homosexuals were the products of childhood abuse. Then came ''[[
** Card's Mormonism has also gotten in the way of his fiction. The last book of the "Ender" quartet, ''Children of the Mind'', spends lots of time describing [[Our Souls Are Different|"physics"]] that are taken straight out of Mormon theology.
** And now the thoughts on homosexuality are seeping into his work. Behold, [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011summer/card.shtml Hamlet's Father], where all of Hamlet's issues can be traced back to getting bad-touched by his daddy, who turned half of the play's cast gay with his foul, corrupting penis.
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