On 26 May 2014 23:31, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:12 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 25 May 2014 23:32, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I guess it would be pedantic to point out the silliness of aliens >>>> wanting to have sex with humans. I mean, we're more closely related to >>>> grass, jellyfish and slugs than we are to aliens... >>>> >>> >>> Makes sense, of course, but I'm not so sure. I don't think we know >>> enough at this point to estimate the diversity of the solution space for >>> biologically evolved entities with human-level intelligence or above. It >>> could be that something very similar to us is the only viable solution, or >>> the most likely solution. >>> >>> Functionally similar (perhaps), but certainly not genetically similar. >> We aren't even gentically similar enough to interbreed with any other >> species that evolved on the same planet under very similar conditions to us >> - for example, we are very closely related to chimps, but we still can't >> interbreed with them. >> > > Ok, but now you're making the requirements more stringent. We were talking > about outer-space fetishists, not necessarily interbreeding. So functional > similarity might be enough, as alluded in "sheep are nervous". :) > > Well if you're just talking about something you can put your dick in (or an alien can put their proboscis in), that's a (ahem) broad range of items, depending on your tastes (See "A melon for ecstasy" and "The unrepentant necrophile" for some suggestions for things one can "have sex with" in this sense, should one be so inclined).
However your original reply (in blue above) certainly *appeared* to be talking about interbreeding. (Or did you mean humanoid forms are "the only viable solution for fetishists who happen to get their kicks from anally probing members of other species" ?) But anyway .... OK, aliens *may* want to have sex with humans, just as a human *may* want to have sex with orangutans - but generally they won't, because sexual attraction is fairly fine tuned, both by evolution and social norms (indeed it's so fine tuned that species that could in theory interbreed often don't) - and, at least in my experience, most humans don't even want to have sex with most other humans ..... never mind fancying members of a different species who will almost certainly give out all the wrong visual, behavioural, and chemical cues. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
