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Title: Down there...?
Post by: GaGs on September 22, 2010, 08:56:34 AM
Yeah, I know it's a children's series, but let's brainstorm here- have you ever considered the genitalia on some of these creatures? Andalites are blue centaurs, so the term "hung like a horse" comes to mind...

Do they have external or telepathic sex?

Are the mating habits of the Hork-Bajir or Taxxons ever discussed? If so....how the hell does that work without someone getting stabbed or eaten??

Do they find mates for pleasure or just reproduction, and if pleasure, what's the dating scene look like? 
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: LisaCharly on September 22, 2010, 09:26:03 AM
Leeran sex fascinates me, because I can't imagine intimacy being a huge deal in a culture with no secrets.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Chad32 on September 22, 2010, 09:51:22 AM
I don't think about it often, but I assume Andalites do it like most four legged creature. "Doggy style". As for Hork-Bajir, I assume they do it carefully. It must be possible, and the fact that they have tough hides and heal quickly likely helps.

Now as for Taxxons, they're probably one of those creatures like certain spiders, where the female eats the male. Though I'm not sure if the females are bigger than the males. I'm really not sure how they have sex, or what would keep them from eating their young. Maybe they usually mate near the Living Hive, who obviously can control their hunger. Maybe that's the only place they could actually mate. Or maybe the Living Hive is the only thing that breeds more Taxxons, much like a queen bee or ant.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Alic on September 22, 2010, 01:26:51 PM
Andalites couldn't have sexy time telepathically. They didn't get thought speech for some time, so .. Yeah. Gross. Alien sex.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Gyt Kaliba on September 22, 2010, 02:03:57 PM
I think my brain seriously just broke reading this. I thought I couldn't be any more shocked by fan thoughts after stumbling upon a Turtlecest thread on a TMNT forum (don't ask, for your sanity, just don't ask. :-X)

Still...it is an interesting thing to ponder. I think the only species they do cover as far as this goes is Yeerks right? We don't even know if Hork-Bajir give live birth or lay eggs that I can think of. For some reason I always envisioned them as egg-layers.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: RYTX on September 22, 2010, 02:12:40 PM
I picked but my text book for anatomy, and flipping through it you see a lot of diverse stuff in the nether-regions so as creepy as this is to think about it's also really fascinating....from an scientific view I mean :-[

The centaurian body does make you think horse, but at same time that seems like more exposure than the noble Andalites could get away with-including on the digestive end, ya know

Hork-Bajir I don't know-I can't conceive of a way for them to do it with out someone getting hurt

Now for Taxxons, I don't think this would work based on size, and at least one of them eating it, but I wonder if it might be like some insects, where the male deposits his reproductive materials just on the a and the female can pick it up. Now if we chuck in nupital gifts-especially one from each involved to for them to chew on during this, it may even be possible for taxxons to breed and everyone get out alive
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Chad32 on September 22, 2010, 02:38:24 PM
I don't know if Horks give live birth or lay eggs either. I think of them as reptiles, but I believe it's stated in book 13 that Jara sweated after sliding his head open. Reptiles don't sweat that I know of. I'm not sure how they would work around the blades, except to do it carefully. I'm not sure how it would work, unless they really do cut each other a bit but not lethally.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Darth Revan on September 24, 2010, 05:06:21 AM
Sex with blades? Kinky. :P

Nah, perhaps the Hork-Bajir have their "organs" in their tails, or somewhere along the more "accessible" areas.

As far as the Andalites, I think it would be more like the mating habits of a deer.

Remember, she likens the Adalites to deers more than horses.
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My first reaction was that someone had cloned a person and a deer together. The creature had
a head and shoulders and arms that were more or less where they should have been, though
the skin was a pale shade of blue. But below that he had fur, a mix of blue and tan, covering a
four-legged body that really did look like it belonged to a deer, or maybe a small horse.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Chad32 on September 24, 2010, 08:09:37 AM
Is there a difference between horse sex and deer sex?
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Gyt Kaliba on September 24, 2010, 01:31:45 PM
I can't imagine it'd be much different...but I'm far from an animal sex expert. :P

Hmm...come to think of it, in the book where Toby is born, doesn't Marco or someone else ponder this question on the Hork-Bajir? I seem to recall Jara says it's a 'Hork-Bajir secret' or something.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Terenia on September 24, 2010, 02:24:27 PM
I don't know if Horks give live birth or lay eggs either. I think of them as reptiles, but I believe it's stated in book 13 that Jara sweated after sliding his head open. Reptiles don't sweat that I know of. I'm not sure how they would work around the blades, except to do it carefully. I'm not sure how it would work, unless they really do cut each other a bit but not lethally.

Well it's important to keep in mind that Horks are reptilian, not necessarily reptiles. They are aliens, which means that their biology may not equate perfectly with earth biology. They may sweat and still lay eggs. They may be warm-blooded, but scaly. They my give live birth, but be cold blooded. The normal rules don't necessarily apply.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: goom on September 24, 2010, 04:07:21 PM
Now for Taxxons, I don't think this would work based on size, and at least one of them eating it, but I wonder if it might be like some insects, where the male deposits his reproductive materials just on the a and the female can pick it up. Now if we chuck in nupital gifts-especially one from each involved to for them to chew on during this, it may even be possible for taxxons to breed and everyone get out alive

could be like the parasitic wasps who lay their eggs in caterpillars. or in this case, each other.
the young could eat the female (i'm assuming the male fertilize her; she wouldn't give birth 'normally') for a nice nutritious snack.
yummy, taxxon. :taxxon:
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Alex Oiknine on September 25, 2010, 05:51:59 PM
As with humans, I mostly just don't pay attention to this subject except its relevance to my courses related to the general field of biological anthropology.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: GaGs on October 05, 2010, 08:10:51 PM
Looks like no one can know for sure. I guess the best conclusion here is the InterGalactic stork.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Agent 128 on October 06, 2010, 03:00:34 AM
I'm pretty sure the Andalites have a ton of options, since they have access to morphing technology.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: goom on October 06, 2010, 03:06:19 AM
well, the andalite body wouldn't get pregnant by mating in morph.
when they demorphed it would be as if nothing had happened.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Tyler on October 06, 2010, 10:36:26 AM
That's messed up. :-\

Maybe Andalites do something with touching their hooves? I know that's how they eat..
Personally though I think it's telepathic sex. Man, that would be so hot. :drools:

VOTE TYLER 2010
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Coal Kropotkin on October 06, 2010, 11:51:11 AM
Never really thought about it, but what would make the most sense to me as far as Taxxons go would go either A) a queen type setting, where the queen lays larva, (and, with them being cannibalistic, would explain why they like roaches so much. :P), B) using a medium, and infecting them with young like the parasitic wasps Kev mentioned, or C) the female (does it state they have standard genders?) eats the male, and the baby eats the mama.

HB... I have no clue, I think considering the fact that they go through their entire life with those blades, they'd be able to easily have sex without killing one another.  And I'm pretty sure they're egg layers, IMHO, otherwise it seems like there'd be some kind of "*documentary voice* And while the mother lay sleeping, drugged from her own bodies endorphins, the baby spends 27 hours tearing, cutting and ripping through the mother's skin from the inside out in order to escape his wombed-prison." :P I mean, born with blades? Ouch....

Andalites... Hung like horses does come to mind... :P I think they'd have a retractable... Area. Or at least one that could be covered up or something. For two reasons, 1) too noble to have their wank hanging out while trying to shout commands and talk about how much better they are, I think they would have used clothing had that been the case, 2) You KNOW Marco would have made some kind of joke had Ax's willy been just flopping around the whole time. :P

Yeerks... *shuddergag*

Leerans... This has potential for planet-wide orgy. I mean, when everyone can read everyone's thoughts... Lol.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: GaGs on October 07, 2010, 01:17:06 PM
Wait...so Andalites could, if they wanted, morph into any sexually appealing form they want, bang it out like a pair of cymbals, and then morph back without ever worrying about getting her pregnant.


UNFAIR.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Shenmue654 on October 11, 2010, 07:50:46 AM
Yeah, that's really pretty unfair. X3

I imagine the Andalite nether region is hidable under a tuft of fur, as with most mammals actually. But there's also the possibility that even if it were unhidden that they just don't care. They wouldn't have the same decency norms as a human, being completely naked 100% of the time. I'd imagine that they wouldn't find it non-noble to have their crotch hanging around.  ;)

As for Marco's possible reaction...well, I personally find horse genetalia a little hard to spot/care about when they aren't copulating. But I can see where the joke would've come up.  ^^
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: LisaCharly on October 11, 2010, 03:54:21 PM
< I am not a horse, though in many aspects I closely resemble one.>
I heard Marco roar with laughter. I did not think the situation was particular humorous.

Ax in #52

I always assumed that was a possible Getting Stuff Past the Radar moment for hung-like-a-horse gags.
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Tyler on October 13, 2010, 10:52:20 AM
Wait...so Andalites could, if they wanted, morph into any sexually appealing form they want, bang it out like a pair of cymbals, and then morph back without ever worrying about getting her pregnant.


UNFAIR.

unfair and totally awesome 8)
Title: Re: Down there...?
Post by: Coal Kropotkin on October 13, 2010, 02:11:39 PM
Very, very unfair. :(

But, yeah, I just assumed they'd have something hidable/hidden/retractable/et cetera. Or maybe they have weird hoof-lovin'. :o