Sex Equals?
After Foster said "the sex that occurs is invariably tied up with something else," (147) I wondered, hmm, what does that suggest about Henry's high sex drive? The Time Traveler's Wife covers the intimate acts of the couple's relationship, and Henry's sexual appetite (26 times in a day, wow). Is sex here a metaphor for something else or is it just sex? Foster attaches a number of possibilities as to what sex can imply. But I don't see what else sex in a book chronicling a couples life together would mean but sex. I did sort of think the physicality of it kept Henry planted in the present because it relaxed him like running did, but I don't know. Any other theories?
I think that the use of sex in The Time Travelors Wife is just something that is used to confirm that Henry is in fact human. It is something that makes him normal, and enables him to do something in the past and present in order to form a relationship with Clare.