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No slip of the keyboard. Brian Reed is the current writer of the current Red Sonja series being put out by Dynamite. He's posited an interesting "solution" to the whole "redeem her rape by never allowing her to have any other kind of sex" nonsense: the Goddess who saved and empowered Sonja has been retconned to have been a manipulative, evil force who instigated the attack on her family in the first place, and has been stringing Sonja along to her death as part of a long-term conflict with Kulan Gath. Sonja finds out, rejects the Goddess, gets killed, gets reincarnated (sort of) and marries a man who teaches her legends and statecraft before he gets killed, and then her old boyfriend from her last incarnation hunts her down and becomes her warrior mentor.

So, she can have all the sex she wants, now, with anyone she pleases. Of course, she's also now the only female in her entire universe who's neither evil nor a victim (well, she's still a victim, so nevermind), and she's been protected and given everything important in her life (including all her skill and knowledge as well as her wealth and station) by men, usually men who have gotten or probably will get sex out of it, but hey. Two steps back is totally a fair price for one step forward. -_-

Seeing her blocking the sword of someone that much heavier and taller never rings true.

Agreed. I have that problem with the Batclan a lot too. There's a lot of hard martial arts in comics where they don't make sense.