The following year, Asimov explained, he began to have extramarital affairs. Asimov was known, in those days, to various women, as “the man with a hundred hands.” On occasion, the third or fourth time his hand patted my rear end, I reached out to clutch his crotch. When it went, occasionally, beyond purely social enjoyability, there seemed no way to clue him in. The fact is that Isaac (who was at that time a spectacularly uxorious and virtuous husband) apparently felt obliged to leer, ogle, pat, and proposition as an act of sociability.

When writing the book he invited Merril to comment, and Asimov included her response in a footnote.

In Memory Yet Green recounts a 1952 incident in which writer Judith Merril seemed to hit on Asimov, inspiring the author, by his own account, to speed away. Campbell, Asimov coined the word “robotics” and wrote the Foundation series. A Golden Age grand master and a protegé of Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. (In his native Russia, the date of Asimov’s birth wasn’t precisely recorded.) The anniversary passed with little notice, although Asimov was a towering presence in science fiction and one of the most prolific writers to ever live. Janumarked the centenary of Isaac Asimov’s birth at least, of the birth date the late author celebrated. This presents an exercise of innocence both on the part of the toucher and touchee that should bring tears of envy to all beholders. The sensuous dirty old man has learned the fine art of the touch, that of making it so gentle and innocent that the young lady involved can scarcely believe it is happening and therefore ignores it. A response to a then-popular book called The Sensuous Woman, Asimov’s book instructs dirty old men on how to leer (“don’t peep at girls-STARE!”), make suggestive remarks (“What a magnificent dress… or am I merely judging by the contents?”), and fondle. A”… but “the secret is out,” admits a paperback edition, naming the author as Isaac Asimov, “undoubtedly the best writer in America” per the Mensa Bulletin. The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971) is credited to “Dr.

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