Granted, he did. At the same time, Asimov was well known to be a groper, and even wrote a satire book called "The sensuous dirty old man" which would probably have landed better as satire had he not been fairly well known in scifi circles to be in fact a dirty old man.
There were some decent scifi authors at the time - not least, Ursula K LeGuin.
There were some decent scifi authors at the time - not least, Ursula K LeGuin.