Before revision: Media representation 1980s to 2000s The Gods Themselves is a 1972 novel by Isaac Asimov, a third of which is devoted to describing an alien race in an alien dimension where complete intimate relationships are, by biological necessity, composed of three individuals – a so-called “triad” – and where conception, and orgasm, is only possible during sexual intercourse between all three partners at the same time (i.e., a threesome).Asimov, Isaac (1972).
After revision: Media representation 1970s to 2000s The Gods Themselves is a 1972 novel by Isaac Asimov, a third of which is devoted to describing an alien race in an alien dimension where complete intimate relationships are, by biological necessity, composed of three individuals – a so-called “triad” – and where conception, and orgasm, is only possible during sexual intercourse between all three partners at the same time (i.e., a threesome).Asimov, Isaac (1972).