Venus And The Seven Sexes
"Venus and the Seven Sexes" is a short science-fiction story written by William Tenn in 1949.
It was first published in the anthology The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, and Other Stories, and in 1953 in the anthology Science-Fiction Carnival by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, published by Shasta Publishers.
It was reprinted in 1968 as part of the short story collection The Seven Sexes, a collection of Tenn's stories published by Ballantine Books.
The story also appears in the 2001 collection Immodest Proposals.
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