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actually, it's not really a recurring theme in science fiction - it's a recurring theme in *parodies* of science fiction. even in the classic example of this kind of thing, the original star trek series, the truth is that kirk only got laid a miniscule number of times, and almost all were human (and all *looked* human). you'll find this kind of thing - the hero coming across a new planet, hookin up with some alien chick-thing, and humpin her, is very rare, except in spoofs where it is played for laughs.


why not? what a person is attracted to is very variable. it doesn't need to be "pretty", or even human. think furries, for example.


you're assuming the terms "mammal" and "lizard" have any meaning to aliens. ^_^;


not necessarily. like i said, what a person is attracted to has no rhyme or reason.


if she's really alien, can't happen. even if the plumbing is compatible, doesn't mean anything will come out of it.


not unless you consider the aliens to be animals.

obviously if we ever come across intelligent extraterrestrials we will have to change our language a bit. right now we have two words: human for human animals, and animals for every non-human animal. that works fine for now because whenever we want to talk about intelligent beings or "people", they're all human, and anything non-human is not self-aware or a "person". when we come across intelligent extraterrestrial, we're going to have "people" that aren't human.

so if you want to consider bestiality as "sex with non-humans" then yes, it would be bestiality. but i think that would be kind of insulting. if you want to consider bestiality as "sex with non-people (sex with animals that cannot consent to sex)", then no, it wouldn't be bestiality.

but even if you do call it bestiality, all you end up doin is changin the playing field. right now bestiality is bad because animals can't consent to sex. if you call sex with intelligent aliens bestiality, then you'll end up with "good bestiality" and "bad bestiality".


once upon a time, not too long ago, the thought of a black person having sex with a white person was considered bestiality, and it was considered repulsive.

open your mind. as long as both the person and the alien are cool with it, what's the problem?

Those are some interesting points, but I think we should consider our natural instincts, and possible limitations on compatability. On the other hand, sex (if it's possible) is a strong conditioning/reward stimulus, so in that sense attraction doesn't have to make sense.

I just read a book by Poul Anderson that was pretty entertaining all around. There were actually cat girls in it, cat girls with firm breasts. xd And he was attracted to them. But did he have sex with them? No. He had sex with some human lady that came along later. The point being that the author totally set us up and then reversed on our expectations.

The point is that part of what he's complaining about is that sex-with-the-aliens is a theme/obsession/cliche of science fiction. It's kinda like how the boy and girl always fall in love, except that the girl is an alien. Just like any cliche it's the details put into the work that make it believable or not, like considering natural instincts and physical compatibility.

rofl That just made my day.
And that is one of the reasons that I mentioned biological capacity.

There are many good points going around here, but think about it this way as well. Just because of our social moores, if it doesn't look like us, then it's not a person, even if it IS intelligent. But how would the alien race social moores be like? think about it, our global culture, and I do mean the whole of Humanity's culture, has been built and tweaked over time to what it is currently. What we consider 'normal' might be the expection in some alien culture. So another big factor in wheither it is right or not depends on the cultures of the time.

Who knows, maybe after a couple of generations of contact with an alien speices, interspeices sex will be common. It's all possible, because we CAN NOT prodect the future.