• Fermion@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Have… have you read the books? He comes very close to endorsing incest, and he talks wayyy too much about young teen sexual attraction and relationships.

    A major plot point is a group of women who can so expertly perform sexual favors that they completely override the free will of men.

    This is mild compared to what went on in his head.

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      9 months ago

      That’s certainly… one interpretation of the bene gesserit, they aren’t the Companions from Firefly

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        9 months ago

        I was thinking of the Honored Matres of the scattering, whom the bene gesserit despise largely because they rely on sexual manipulation rather than other forms of control and influence.

        I probably should have specified that much of that is later in the series and not in the first book.