• St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    Alright, so you’re looking at a hot man or woman. You recognize that their characteristics are attractive. Maybe you like big titties, maybe you like developed delts, maybe you like a nice set of hands. Most anyone who sees these will say something to the effect of “oh yeah, those are fine body parts. I have no issue viewing them.”

    Genitalia, on the other hand, are not one of the most attractive parts on a person. Just look at the sort of pelvic accessory you’re not interested in (bi people, I’m sorry) and you’ll pretty quickly realize that they’re just no fun to look at. When you get closer and you’re hit with acidic or ammonia-esque scents, it only gets worse.

    In order to get around the minor issue of procreation avoidance, a portion of your brain chimes in and says “well actually, it’s not so bad. Give it a chance.” Consider the difference between your perceptions before and after puberty, if you’d care to understand on a human level. (Ace people, I’m sorry) Or check out more articles if you’d like to study this a bit further.

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      This would also explain why basically a shortcut in horror monster/alien/scenery/set design is to start with genitalia as a style guide, and then distort it and/or apply it to objects that do not normally come even close to that.

      Monster zombie dog?

      Make dog naked, furless, and veiny, throbbing, skin where you can see it isn’t bleeding, but theres tons of blood right at the surface of the skin, also its mouth/head is now basically a vaginal opening with teeth, but uh, opening horizontally instead of vertically.

      See how easy this is?

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        The design of the Xenomorph from Alien is famously like that. It has feminine curves, but a phallic head. And facehugger is basically raping the victims to impregnate them. All of these design choices were intentional to evoke the disgust/fear of the audience, I remember reading about this

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          Half Life (2) monsters as well.

          The, uh, the gonarchs, the ‘adult headcrabs’ on Xen?

          Yeah, it literally just is giant walking ballsack, pretty sure the concept artist basically just says that directly in ‘Raising the Bar’.

          A bunch of the planned enemy types that existed in the beta/alpha, before Valve/HL2 got hacked and they significantly shifted development… a lot of the enemy types had concepts of much more fleshy/flappy/foldy appearances, often with hair, again, like pubic hair.

          But they toned that down a lot, made them much sleeker, more ‘synth’ than … i guess monstrosity.

          But but, then of course, Eli gets skull fucked to death by a giant penis tentacle, extending out from… basically a giant floating testicle sans scrotum, in Ep 2.

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      Genitals are cool, I have pictures of all types glued to my truck so I can share them with the world.

      They smell and taste as good as they look too!

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      Interestingly, it’s not about the look of genitalia specifically.

      For example, I happen to be a hetero person, yet I appreciate both genitals equally. What matters is how feminine the carrier is. I’ll appreciate a nice dick on a beautiful woman, but on a man…ew. Same with vaginas - if it belongs to a woman, it can be very arousing, but you won’t find trans men in my bedroom.

      It’s the same genitals, but their perception is wildly different.

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              I like women, hence, I’m hetero. Shouldn’t be too hard.

              Now, you can make categories of dick lovers and vagina appreciators, but “hetero”, just as “homo” and the rest, refers to gender attraction, not genitals. No need to gatekeep that.

              I have no objection being called queer, but definitionally I’m just not.

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                No it actually refers to sex, not gender. Gay for a man is loving dick, not loving males.

                Definitionally you aren’t hetero if you enjoy both sexual organs.

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              the craziest part to me is the implication that a guy who’s into women or trans men is perfectly straight, as long as those trans men didn’t have bottom surgery, because pussy is pussy (?)

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        Curse your birth elsewhere, buddy. Take your genital loving ass over to the inguinal photo communities while me and the boys continue to peruse hands and earlobes to our hearts’ content.