Riddle me this. Why do almost all humanoid species and paranormal supernaturals sport the same sexual equipment and it works just like ours? Their ears may be cupped, their blood silver, and two hearts beat in their belly, they buzz or glow in the happy moments or have different erogenous zones but the sexual apparatus is non-negotiable. Anatomy cannot impede true love.
It makes it easier to get it on with an Alien dude or dudette, but we’re more imaginative than that. Invention is a human specialty.
Lets look at this logically? Vampire traditionally are dead, they don’t have kids so why does their equipment still work? What are the men ejaculating anyway? Live sperm from the walking dead? Dead sperm, now that’s a cold shower if there ever was one. Yuck. There are ways around this, of course. We can make them a new, living species, ignore it because its fantasy, or innovate with it. In Morgan Hawke’s House of Shadows, our vampire hero Rick shoots blood. Messy but so very vampire.
Seems to me, playing with alternative genitalia can really spice up a paranormal, sci fi or any other story for that matter. Just because.
There are a few fun examples out there. In another world created by Morgan Hawke’s Imperial Stars Series, skeldhi males have two, one for the front and back door. Aah creativity.
Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry Series gave us Sholto, King of the Slaugh, a hybrid, whose extra bits and bobs stimulate multiple parts. So you have the physical pleasure of a ménage but the emotional depth of a single partner. That’s what I’m talking about.
These worlds don’t just push at the edges of the box, they obliterate it and rebuild. (Hamilton goes well beyond anatomy but you’ll have to read it yourself).
How do we explore the depth of who we are, if don’t hack away at our barriers, including the anatomical ones?
Any favorite alien body parts out there? Examples of other books that don’t let human anatomy get in the way of a good story?