"Aye, and Gomorrah..." is a New Wave science fiction short story by American writer Samuel R. Delany.
It was controversial because of its sexual subject matter,[1] and has been called "one of the best stories by a gay man published in the 1960s.
"[2] Graham Sleight has described it as a "revisionist take" on Cordwainer Smith's story "Scanners Live in Vain".
[3] The narrative involves a world where astronauts, known as Spacers, are neutered before puberty to avoid the effects of space radiation on gametes.
Aside from making them sterile, the neutering also prevents puberty from occurring and results in androgynous adults whose birth-sex is unclear to others.