tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post3272779000088020039..comments2024-03-28T18:54:13.800-04:00Comments on alien romances: Alien Sexuality Part One - The Root Of All ConflictRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-39093963310799352652010-12-14T16:52:38.542-05:002010-12-14T16:52:38.542-05:00Depends how broadly you define "same pattern....Depends how broadly you define "same pattern." Those fish species in which the male latches onto the female's body, loses all his inessential organs, and devolves into a lump of sperm-producing tissue parasitizing on her are pretty far from the pattern of mammal reproduction!<br /><br />C. S. Lewis somewhere, in talking about hypothetical Christian missionaries in space, cautions that we might fall into the trap of mistaking for "sin" a behavior pattern that is natural and right for the alien species in question. Suppose we met a species in which the male degenerates into something like the male of those fish? To demand that males have equal rights with females on that world would make no sense. What if there were an intelligent species similar to some spiders, in which the newly hatched young get nourishment to begin their lives by devouring their mother's body? We would be foolish to try to impose our taboo against cannibalism on those aliens.<br /><br />There's an exciting plot premise -- a female in such a species decides she wants to have children and yet perform the "unnatural" act of surviving the birth process.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-42518601383871667972010-12-14T14:02:57.088-05:002010-12-14T14:02:57.088-05:00I found this article to be very interesting! Well ...I found this article to be very interesting! Well written!Kimber Leszczuk.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10600447859414457126noreply@blogger.com