Un-gendered aliens
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sirhugs
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They discover sex, more or less by accident. Reproduction has been done scientifically for several generations, so no one alive remembers sex.
Then two beings hook up. *
do they keep it a secret, or share with others?
If secret, what happens when others find out?
*this part could be a lot of fun, as not limited to the humanoid binary sex organs...
Then two beings hook up. *
do they keep it a secret, or share with others?
If secret, what happens when others find out?
*this part could be a lot of fun, as not limited to the humanoid binary sex organs...
AlinaX
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How do you envision reproduction? Parthenogenesis? Hermaphroditism? Multiple sexes but no concept of gender?
Today I woke up with a pussy. I've been sexless for so long, drifting along indifferent to intimacy, but today I feel alive again. It's weird, because I'm usually on the other side, the one doing the penetration, but suddenly I'm in the mood for a role reversal. I have a pussy, and it's very hungry too. Or maybe it's my womb telling me it's time to become a parent. Either way, I need someone to fuck me like I've never been fucked before...
Today I woke up with a pussy. I've been sexless for so long, drifting along indifferent to intimacy, but today I feel alive again. It's weird, because I'm usually on the other side, the one doing the penetration, but suddenly I'm in the mood for a role reversal. I have a pussy, and it's very hungry too. Or maybe it's my womb telling me it's time to become a parent. Either way, I need someone to fuck me like I've never been fucked before...
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You don't need genders to still have all the standard human motivations revolving around romantic/sexual partners: love, lust, jealousy, nymphomania, frigidity.... people still have that "person to person" connection and all the positive and negative consequences that go with it.
I can imagine a species where every individual has both male and female organs (concave and convex, that is) and it takes a double penetration to create an offspring. I think earthworms actually reproduce that way if memory serves. Maybe these aliens take turns fucking each other if they don't want to reproduce; they only do it "on the double" when they do want to reproduce. Except then there will always be a few kinky ones who try to find a way to do the double-header but without conception, so they need to create some sort of "birth" control.
I can imagine a species where every individual has both male and female organs (concave and convex, that is) and it takes a double penetration to create an offspring. I think earthworms actually reproduce that way if memory serves. Maybe these aliens take turns fucking each other if they don't want to reproduce; they only do it "on the double" when they do want to reproduce. Except then there will always be a few kinky ones who try to find a way to do the double-header but without conception, so they need to create some sort of "birth" control.
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Banana slugs. See Big Banana: Slugging it out with little sister, my most-read and lowest-scoring piece.
Ways to handle alien genders include Heinlein's STRANGER Martians, where children are neuter, teens are female, adults are male, and elders are ghosts. I forget whose aliens have three to eight genders, all of must whom join for reproduction. In some Earth critters, genders change with temperature and other conditions; aliens could change genders by mood or whim. Deity-like ETs could reproduce by exchanging energy flows or just by command, no genders needed. Some Earth plants self-fertilize. Many Earth bacteria of various species exchange genetic material by invasion.
IOW genderless but conscious and emotional aliens should be easy to invent.
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Carnevil9
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Asimov has a novel (The Gods Themselves? I'm not sure) where there is an alien species with three sexes. All were required for procreation.
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An alien species that lives in a cool climate, the seasons barely change on this planet.
The species is humanoid, has one gender (no gender), is covered in feathery white fur, has big almond shaped eyes, blue colour surrounds each eye, a thin blue diamond shaped colour sits between the eyes. Five fingers and a thumb on each hand. The species naturally has a long bump from sternum to groin. A breathing apparatus of four nostril like tentacles lie below the chin.
Genetic differences are common. Swirling coffee-coloured stripes across the whole body, eyebrows and double eyebrows - like eye-black in baseball, parts of the body where the fur hardens into scaly horns.
The species are beastmasters, most own a falcon like bird. Wearing a snake around your shoulders is considered fashionable. They don't get frightened, apparently, and their naive attitude supports this notion that they are superior to the beasts of prey and such. If there is clothing at all, cloaks are the item of choice.
Narrowing one's eyes is considered flirting in some social situations.
Dancing is related to the movements of grooming, think, 70s or perhaps Indian dancing.
Wearing a net is considered sexy, especially around the pelvis. You don't "fall in love" you get "trapped in love". Fluffed up shoulders are considered stoic.
There are strong social differences between the young and old. There is a stereotype for the young to speak directly.
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Plots:
One suddenly becomes frightened when *they* meets a different species.
A romeo and juliet clone, where two that shouldn’t fall for each other.
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Sex:
Yeah, dual sexes but no gender was my first thought, and a fully retractable phallus, and a mating season spurred on by pheromones.
Or hermaphrodites.
Or they change to maternal/paternal at a certain age, or situation.
Disclaimer: Yes I am aware that portraying non gendered beings as being not of this earth may be triggering to some, this is just my imagination at work.
The species is humanoid, has one gender (no gender), is covered in feathery white fur, has big almond shaped eyes, blue colour surrounds each eye, a thin blue diamond shaped colour sits between the eyes. Five fingers and a thumb on each hand. The species naturally has a long bump from sternum to groin. A breathing apparatus of four nostril like tentacles lie below the chin.
Genetic differences are common. Swirling coffee-coloured stripes across the whole body, eyebrows and double eyebrows - like eye-black in baseball, parts of the body where the fur hardens into scaly horns.
The species are beastmasters, most own a falcon like bird. Wearing a snake around your shoulders is considered fashionable. They don't get frightened, apparently, and their naive attitude supports this notion that they are superior to the beasts of prey and such. If there is clothing at all, cloaks are the item of choice.
Narrowing one's eyes is considered flirting in some social situations.
Dancing is related to the movements of grooming, think, 70s or perhaps Indian dancing.
Wearing a net is considered sexy, especially around the pelvis. You don't "fall in love" you get "trapped in love". Fluffed up shoulders are considered stoic.
There are strong social differences between the young and old. There is a stereotype for the young to speak directly.
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Plots:
One suddenly becomes frightened when *they* meets a different species.
A romeo and juliet clone, where two that shouldn’t fall for each other.
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Sex:
Yeah, dual sexes but no gender was my first thought, and a fully retractable phallus, and a mating season spurred on by pheromones.
Or hermaphrodites.
Or they change to maternal/paternal at a certain age, or situation.
Disclaimer: Yes I am aware that portraying non gendered beings as being not of this earth may be triggering to some, this is just my imagination at work.
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They can be the last of their kind, having survived an extinction type event by fleeing via spacecraft. Now, they have to propagate their species.
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Genderless doesn't necessarily mean sexless. It just could be that there's no obvious gender dimorphism, everyone looks about the same regardless. With evolutionary pressure for distinct gender roles dropping, humanity itself might even drift that way, or at least it's conceivable some offshoots might.
Then, the obvious evolutionary advantage of split sex is the mixing of genes. So, it's conceivable that alternatively to two genders it could be that everyone is technically the same, but it needs two (or more) of them to create offsprings somehow. So not ova and sperm, but rather universal slime that can't grow from itself, but mix any two and watch out. Might mean, too close relatives can't mix either, so incest is automatically infertile, or if anything happens it's considered safe.
What about triple spiral genetics? So you need two compatible partners for parenting offspring any of three could then nurse.
It's hard to go more into group relationships without going the opposite way. Extreme gender differences would lend to that better, for example: ova carrier (type A (female)) should collect sperm from (type B (male)) and (type C (male)), the fertilized zygote is then fished out by (type D (??)) and transferred into the womb or (type E (female)) where it should be activated by (type F (male)) and the birthed baby then nursed by (type G (female)). That's seven distinct required sexes but only three general genders and only one sex added by three-way genetics. If individuals are then allowed to have up to, say traits and organs of up to any three basic sexes out the seven, it's 63 possible variations, if fourth basic sex is allowed it gives 35 more for 98 total (out of 127 possible if any combination is permitted).
I would expect a myriad of gender identities in such a society (because, say an ABDG individual may find D function gross and very rarely act as B preferring to identify as A+ but not quite pure A either, and so forth), but maybe the thousands of possibilities can make the whole concept nearly meaningless...
If nursing function (G) is widespread the individual differences in outlook may wastly overshadow any body polymorphism dictated by the basic sex or combinations of those. Especially if the exact combination of sexes an individual carry can only be observed closely examining their genitals exclusively in aroused state. Such society could possibly be described as genderless even despite the hundred sexes.
Then, the obvious evolutionary advantage of split sex is the mixing of genes. So, it's conceivable that alternatively to two genders it could be that everyone is technically the same, but it needs two (or more) of them to create offsprings somehow. So not ova and sperm, but rather universal slime that can't grow from itself, but mix any two and watch out. Might mean, too close relatives can't mix either, so incest is automatically infertile, or if anything happens it's considered safe.
What about triple spiral genetics? So you need two compatible partners for parenting offspring any of three could then nurse.
It's hard to go more into group relationships without going the opposite way. Extreme gender differences would lend to that better, for example: ova carrier (type A (female)) should collect sperm from (type B (male)) and (type C (male)), the fertilized zygote is then fished out by (type D (??)) and transferred into the womb or (type E (female)) where it should be activated by (type F (male)) and the birthed baby then nursed by (type G (female)). That's seven distinct required sexes but only three general genders and only one sex added by three-way genetics. If individuals are then allowed to have up to, say traits and organs of up to any three basic sexes out the seven, it's 63 possible variations, if fourth basic sex is allowed it gives 35 more for 98 total (out of 127 possible if any combination is permitted).
I would expect a myriad of gender identities in such a society (because, say an ABDG individual may find D function gross and very rarely act as B preferring to identify as A+ but not quite pure A either, and so forth), but maybe the thousands of possibilities can make the whole concept nearly meaningless...
If nursing function (G) is widespread the individual differences in outlook may wastly overshadow any body polymorphism dictated by the basic sex or combinations of those. Especially if the exact combination of sexes an individual carry can only be observed closely examining their genitals exclusively in aroused state. Such society could possibly be described as genderless even despite the hundred sexes.
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AlinaX
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Iain Banks's Player of Games also - iirc, there is a socially dominant apex sex between sort-of male and female sexes.
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....they already exist, they are called ex-wives....
ohhhh... I think I might pay for that one.
You likely already are ...
I had to check out the blatant plug. I really liked it -- and think it should be in the Humor category, which might say more about me than the story -- but doubt one five will change the score much.
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"They" say the brain is the biggest sexual organ. Well for the semi-shape shifting sentient beings on the planet Gmmorff'f this is really true. They have evolved to lack genitalia or gender and reproduce by binary fission whenever their more efficient than a humanoid brain becomes extremely sexually excited.
A Gmmorff'fian exploration team studying their own primitive past arrives on earth (coincidentally during fiestyou gayas de mamarrachos) and uses their limited ability to shape-shift to assume humanoid forms to study the festival.
The human subjects assume the visitors are masked party goers and include them in the debauchery and as the Gmmorff'fians get over stimulated ...
Well, let's just say that the story definitely belongs in the Group Sex category.
A Gmmorff'fian exploration team studying their own primitive past arrives on earth (coincidentally during fiestyou gayas de mamarrachos) and uses their limited ability to shape-shift to assume humanoid forms to study the festival.
The human subjects assume the visitors are masked party goers and include them in the debauchery and as the Gmmorff'fians get over stimulated ...
Well, let's just say that the story definitely belongs in the Group Sex category.
