@BoG said:
@believer258 said:
@Napalm said:
Renegade your ass out of that situation.
Excellent choice of words, my friend.
On topic, I wish they had an option to just turn off homosexual (or heterosexual, for fairness) romances in the menu or at the beginning of the game. I know you can back out anytime, but I just don't want to initiate talking about it in the first place.
Besides, leaving the option open for every crew member makes it seem like all of them are bisexual. Except for the Asari, I don't believe that any of the species in ME are all bisexual and it makes suspension of belief even harder when you realize that your ship is full of people whose sexuality is of a relatively rare type. I dunno, it just doesn't feel right to me.
And no, this doesn't mean I'm homophobic. It just means that having one or two bi options and several options only for male and several only for female Shephard would have made the game's romances seem a lot more natural.
I agree with you. To go even further, though, can you even consider a Human female/ Asari relationship as homosexual? Perhaps for the human, but Asari shouldn't have had any perception of gender prior to encountering other races. I wonder what Asari think of human males. Who says Asari even have a concept of physical intimacy? I guess I can't say this without absolute certainty, but I imagine human intimacy evolved from what we do to reproduce. Asari mind meld, which means there is no need for physical intimacy, or any physical contact. Asari have no reason to have ever engaged in sex in their species history. Mass Effect seems to have established that every intelligent race must have sex for pleasure, but very few species on Earth actually do this. I don't know, it kind of bothers me, and I've probably thought about it more than anyone should.
I have a hunch that Salarians aren't a romance option because they're one of those races that engages in sex to reproduce only. It could be excruciatingly painful for them, or something.
If we really want to discuss alien sexual biology in Mass Effect, then we would have to get into why it's possible for a human female to have a pleasant sexual relationship with a Turian male. For that matter, we would have to get into why no Turian females have been introduced. To my knowledge, at least.
On to the issue at hand! It's entirely possible that Asari do have some sort of organ that they derive sexual pleasure from, possibly a now-useless (in a practical sense) vagina that they evolved out of or something of that sort. For that matter, even if they do meld minds to reproduce, don't the fetuses have to grow somewhere inside them? Or at least come out somewhere? I know that when cells reproduce asexually, they just sort of separate but I don't think any highly evolved multicellular organisms can do that.
But then, this is entirely the realm of fictional biology. A question more grounded in reality would be "why is there a red line under multicellular"?
Oh, yes. Do Asaris have a sense of gender difference? The answer to that would be that they probably have an artificial one, i.e. they understand and realize that all other sentient species (discounting the two known mechanical ones) have different genders , but they don't really have a first person perspective on the issue. It's just a fact to them, something they store in their brains and remember. Similar to how someone who's never been burned can understand that a burn hurts, but can't actually know how it feels.
EDIT: Also, why are almost all of the aliens humanoid?
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