Re: Colossus-The Forbin Project, I saw the movie and I read the book it was based on.

The only part of the book I specifically remember--and which I don't recall as having been included in the movie version--

There is a female character, I don't remember if she is one of the scientists, or a spouse of the main scientist...I can't remember exactly where she fit in. However, Colossus needed to keep her under control as part of Colossus's plan.

So, it seems the book described her as sexually repressed. So Colossus has her personal guard be a very macho male character who completely dominates her and basically repeatedly rapes her.

But--and Colossus has figured all this out in advance--she ends up really enjoying being raped repeatedly and falls in love with the macho man. Apparently he was very skilled with the "D."

It was a long time ago but I remember thinking that the author must have had one or more and possibly all of the following: 1) personal issues he was working out through the novel; 2) a political axe to grind; 3) a great deal of insight into female behavior.