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Re:One of the earliest science fiction books was written by ... by User23 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:25AM (#23917316)
I accept your correction. Still, Odysseus clearly doesn't like being held as a sex slave by not one but two different goddesses.
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Re:One of the earliest science fiction books was written by ... by watwut on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:00PM (#23921525)
Imo, his situation was considerably better then the one of slaves. He was kept not allowed to leave and yes he had sex he did not wanted aka rape.

But not every prisoner is slave. The slaves are present in the books.

Slaves are also killed by Odysseus himself if they had sex with suitors, no regard is made to whether sex was voluntary and odysseus himself claims that sex was rape before (but he just guesses that).

It is not like that story took much regards with regards of rape.

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