The Blowfish Blog

Caught in the Net: Mars Needs Women

Sex and science fiction have been indelibly linked since Philip José Farmer broke taboos with the human/alien tryst in “The Lovers” back in 1952. (They were probably linked before that, but “The Lovers” is an easy milestone to latch onto.) Since then, sex and starfaring folk have come a long way . . .

New science fiction blog io9 has a round-up of The Greatest Sci-Fi Porn of All Time, starting with Barbarella and continuing through a list that ranges from Michael Ninn movies to the porn-superhero comedy Orgazmo. (They have clips for a few of the movies, but nothing too saucy.) In a similar vein, they did a round-up of The Best Sci-Fi Sex Scenes, including android/borg queen shenanigans.

It’s not porn, but it’s a moment that’s inspired a lot of porn: Princess Leia’s metal bikini (and associated slavegirl garb) from Return of the Jedi. Many a geekboy fantasy has revolved around images of Leia chained to the grotesque Jabba the Hutt (well, maybe not so much the Hutt part). There’s even a whole website devoted to the subect: LeiasMetalBikini.com, full of fan art, fans in costume, assorted merchandise, and even instructions for making and buying bikinis, for you ladies who want to make your man’s most secret sci-fi fantasy come true!

Leia’s pretty much the only alien cheesecake present in the original Star Wars trilogy (and, yes, Leia is an alien — she comes from a galaxy far far away!), but classic TV show Star Trek never lacked for sweet alien booty. You can peruse some of Kirk’s intergalactic beauties at the Hotties of Star Trek: The Original Series gallery. It’s not easy being green, but it’s easy on the eyes.

Not to lean overmuch on io9, but they’ve got the goods in this department, as they also have a brief musing on the abundance of three-breasted women in science fiction — though, strangely, the women in question all have three breasts in the front; did these filmmakers never watch Married with Children and hear Al Bundy’s declaration that the perfect woman would have three breasts — with “one on the back for dancing?” Maybe it’s just the difference between alien evolution and male chauvinist genetic engineering . . .

Alas, this column is too brief to span the vast galaxy-spanning combinations of sex and SF, but, as always, we can turn to our friend Wikipedia for pointers to further reading: check out the entry on Sex in Science Fiction for an exhaustive if not all-inclusive list — including notes about John Norman’s Gor novels, which I didn’t discuss here because, really, who has the time? But if you’re already familiar with the joys-of-extraterrestrial-bondage wackiness of Gor, I recommend spoof story Houseplants of Gor whole-heartedly.

Share This

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Caught in the Net. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.