It's always like you learn the author of "Eons of the Giants", and epic space opera that analyzes imperialism and humanity, also wrote some book called "The Fertility of Martians" about a horny alien who comes to earth and fucks a dude who looks like the author when he was 25.
Anyway to keep this tradition alive I've decided to write some smut for fun concurrently with trying to write my SciFi magnum opus.
I think it's just a product of the times. If porn bad been more accessible they probably wouldn't have written 150 thousand words about having sex with a green person
Then again Cameron still did his thing
There are only so many ways to have sex with a green person, but no limits to the variety of backdrops and contexts seasoning the seduction. How many erotic fanfics have been written precisely because worldbuilding and plot setups became foreplay to the reader, regardless of author intent? There will always be a place for implicit erotica to match the explicit