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It was much more common in that particular "political" group back then. Those air quotes are even bigger than they appear because frankly it was almost an entirely different political group, recognized as within the same family as modern ones only by what modern attitudes consider most important for political continuity. That is, they were left leaning, progressively labeled, scifi creators.

And the thing is scifi creators were a bunch of horny fuckers. There's a REASON modern nerds have the stereotype they do, and it's because their creator class were fucking sex weirdos. And not just the men. /a/ is no doubt aware of how lewd female demo manga can get, and it was no less true of the western female scifi writers. It was not incredibly unusual for there to be very obvious fetish fuel stories about liberated female heroines, their hot, understanding lovers who were also maybe a little dark and barbaric. But then also they would have bisexual threesomes with his hot male friend. And also the heroine would have a lot of babies and fantasize about having lots of babies and you get the picture.

Don't let the perception of current political fault lines disguise how much this shit changes, even in a lifetime. Being "left leaning" used to basically be code for "super pervert and proud of it" in a way you only really get to be now if it's the RIGHT kind of perversion. This doesn't go unnoted within these groups either: you might be surprised how many greying fags and dykes get really annoyed the modern queers are all prudish about public dress or sexual behavior. There's a cost to mainstream access and acceptance, and in the American media culture, the cost is very often being more prudish.