Victor_D wrote:Humans don't have telepathy. In the absence of a telepathic link with the human male, the *only* way for a Loroi woman to establish intimacy with a human male is you-know-what.
The question is just how interested in intimacy would a Loroi female be?
We humans have the hypothesis of the
Uncanny valley.
The blue skin the Loroi may not be much of a problem for us as we have such a wide range of skin tones as a species but for the Loroi - if they were to have their own version of the uncanny valley - our skin not being a shade of blue (like a real person) and our freakish psychic invisibility might be a bit like a zombie would be for us.
We are after all (, to them): intellectually opaque, emotionally dead and incapable of
real intimacy.
That we only communicate via spoken word - the language of lies, the tool of deceit - means we would be instinctively be distrusted even if they intellectually accept that we don't have telepathy. (As if we had forked tongues so to speak
)
Add in the Loroi's (IIRC) xenophobia, species chauvinism & war stress, and the idea that the typical Loroi female would be interested in becoming intimate with a human male becomes unlikely.
Sexual outliers may exist like how there are humans who are drawn to necrophilia and bestiality (or perhaps equivalent of the real-doll market) but they will in all likelihood be rare.
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Speaking of zombies, do the Loroi have bogeymen (like zombies, vampires, etc)?
And does the unnaturally pale and seemingly dead Alexander push any of these cultural buttons?
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Speaking
(ever so briefly) of sex toys, do the Loroi have use for them? Much of a industry?
If yes-no then we may finally have found something humanity has to offer that the Loroi
need want.
Beryl: So Captain Jardin on to the next item recovered from your ship, can you explain the purpose of this device?
Alex (turning red): It is a - um - personal massage tool - it - well - can be used for stress relief and to help manage a certain - frustration - by females
One awkward technical explanation and one evening later...
Beryl: Captain Jardin you mentioned previously about a tanker and communications relay...
Would porn exist for the Loroi - perhaps as a telepathic tale or experience?
Have the Loroi had Helen of Troy type figures in the past, were Loroi groups have gone to war over a single male?
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Aside: For those interested in other takes on the 90% female population dynamic I can recommend
A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer - set in a era of horses and six shooters, cannons and ironclads - I consider it an excellent piece of sci-fi detailing a civilisation that might arise from such a unbalanced population. I particularly liked one tiny bit where two characters (one male, one female) ever so briefly discuss what differences 90% (and 50%) male populations might produce compared to the normal 10% one. It was delightfully meta.
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I really need to type faster, there has eight posts since I started this one. 
