LETTERS: `FRANKENSTEIN' MAY OFFER SOME INSIGHT INTO MISSOURI SEX LAW

To the editor:

I recently saw the latest version of the movie "Frankenstein." I had never read Mary Shelley's 19th century classic novel. According to what I had read, the current movie stays closer to the story line than other versions. After I saw it, I was determined to find out if this was true. I did, and it was. In addition, I also found out something else, which may be of particular interest to Missourians.

According to a couple of sources I checked, one alleged reason for a resurgence of interest in Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he created is a belief among some contemporary feminist literary critics that Shelley was in part writing about what she thought was an unconscious desire in males to circumvent women in having babies.

I don't know if this feminist critique is true. It certainly doesn't seem to square with my own desires. But, if it is true, does this mean that the widely publicized action of the Missouri General Assembly, which apparently bans sex, makes some kind of psychoanalytic sense? Go figure.

STEVE MOSLEY

Sikeston