The speculative fiction I have read has the sexual partner helping to protect the scientist’s health by pulling the scientist back into a normal, grounded state of mind after the scientist solves the difficult abstract problem—not serving as an inspiration. In Greg Bear’s Eon for example, scientist Patricia Vasques asks mission leader Gregg Lanier for sex after she solves an extremely difficult problem to prevent her from lingering longer than necessary in the state she needed to get into to solve the problem.
I know my Dad, who was not a scientist but was an engineer with a demanding job, used time with his family to pull him back into a healthier, less cerebral state of mind (which was not always the most pleasant experience for his family).
The speculative fiction I have read has the sexual partner helping to protect the scientist’s health by pulling the scientist back into a normal, grounded state of mind after the scientist solves the difficult abstract problem—not serving as an inspiration. In Greg Bear’s Eon for example, scientist Patricia Vasques asks mission leader Gregg Lanier for sex after she solves an extremely difficult problem to prevent her from lingering longer than necessary in the state she needed to get into to solve the problem.
I know my Dad, who was not a scientist but was an engineer with a demanding job, used time with his family to pull him back into a healthier, less cerebral state of mind (which was not always the most pleasant experience for his family).