 Why were the Venus women transfixed by the Earthmen?
IMAGE OF SPLENDOR By LU KELLA From Venus to Earth, and all the way between, it was a hell of a world for men ... and Apprentice Burnerman O'Rielly particularly. Ever since Venus blast-off O'Rielly had been in Four's watch room. This, mind you, he felt in an age where no Earth guy for a thousand years had dared raise so much as a breath against woman's supremacy in all matters. Except on the Venus layover when he'd been roped into a dice game with a bunch of Venus lads who had a jug to cheer one's parting with one's money. "Venus dames," O'Rielly said dreamily, "don't boss anything, do they?" "Thousand years ago, it was, the first flight reached Venus. So then everybody on Earth got a look, mostly by TV only of course. Before the guys who'd brought the Venus dames to Earth could say anything they was taken apart too small to pick up with a blotter. Earth dames wound up by flying the Venus ones back where they come from and serving notice if one ever set foot on Earth again there wouldn't be enough left of Venus to find with an electron microscope. "Venus boys rared up and served notice that if Earth ever got any funny notions, right away there wouldn't be enough Earth left to hide in an atom's eyebrow. "No Venus dames allowed within fifty miles of their port. Any dame caught trying to leave Venus thrown to the tigers for supper.
 They felt abandoned by their own men who had obsessions with war and little time for them.
 They felt abandoned by their own men who had obsessions with war and little time for them.  The Earthmen were much more attractive and had real facial hair.  The women of Venus liked to break the rules.  Venus was solely occupied by women, leaving them no other option.