I hated how Guy is written in these stories. Outside of his love of Ice, he's pretty much a scumbag. Contrast that with how well he's written now in GLC.
And I really, REALLY, would like to know what the deal is with DC and Mary Marvel. Until they evil-ed her all up I never really thought about her but now I am reflexively defensive when her name comes up.
Like you said there was talk of her losing her virginity to Guy, Giffen also pitched her losing her virginity to Ambush Bug (true story), JSA had Wildcat (who should be in his 80s) asking her brother if she was available, when they supposedly "fixed" the Marvel Family after IC, Freddy got a power-up and became the face of the franchise, Billy was kicked upstairs and made the Wizard and Mary was put into a coma then abandoned by all her friends, family and every single adult she came into contact with, then influenced by Eclipso, came this close to being a concubine of Darkseid, was made a drudge for Holly and Harley on Themsyscira, got her powers back with a grey lighting bolt (get it - she's not all "good anymore" - way to be subtle, DC!) then makes a deal with Darkseid for no known reason, then has her body possessed by DeSaad, then is beaten up by Supergirl, then is saved by Freddy, then is possessed by the power of Black Adam, then saved by the JSA.
During all this time we get a lot of panty shots and gratuitous sexual posing (all the covers with her boobs prominent), with many of the writers of Countdown making suggestive jokes about her in interviews (including one saying the key to stopping her was for her to lose her virginity to Jimmy Olsen - really another virginity joke!) and saying how much they enjoyed giving her feet of clay. Seriously, I honestly think most of them had never read anything with her in other than the SuperBudddies since she was depicted as an idiotic ditz with no parents. And in addition to all that plus DC's obsession with her virginity and being propositioned by older "heroes" she's still supposed to be only 16!
Can sometime tell me what their guesses are about what the hell DC's problem is with Mary Marvel? This has been going for on several years now and doesn't seem to affect the male members of the Marvel family. The sexual poses/jokes they make with her are particularly skeevy.