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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Vrellish Manners
The outtake below will probably not appear in Righteous Anger, book two of the Okal Rel Universe saga. It just sort of happened while I was beavering away at a draft, but doesn't have the right tone for the passage it cropped up in. The dynamic does, however, illustrate an aspect of Vrellish propriety that I find entertaining to portray--namely the "rules" about who is taking advantage of whom when a lower status woman seduces a higher status male. It is all about breeding outcomes and possibilities, of course, which is why the Vrellish call it fertility manners. Taking ferni would offend the Watching Dead, in religious terms. In practical ones, for the race, giving Vrellish sex drive the "out" of avoiding reproductive consequences would probably lead to even lower birth rates. Like many religious prohbitions, Vrellish fertility manners serve the society at large, although not, necessarily, the individual. Not that Vrellish, male or female, are self-conscious of all this at all levels. :-)
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