I’ll be honest, whenever a work of speculative fiction (fanmade or otherwise) goes out of its way to describe an intelligent species with bizarre and complicated reproductive biology, the first question that invariably pops into my head is: “How do these critters masturbate?”
what if masturbation was uniquely a human experience though
Okay, I know that you meant “what if humans are the only intelligent species that’s anatomically capable of masturbating?”, but now I’m picturing a universe where humans are the only ones that ever thought to try it.
Human masturbation specialists traveling the galaxy to offer our gift, undertaking rigorous study and enormous personal risk to teach weird-ass aliens how to rub one out.
Calculating the exact harmonic frequencies to allow ancient, vacuum-dwelling crystalline intelligences to self-stimulate.
Descending into the crushing atmospheres of gas giants in specially constructed aerostats to design sex toys for the vast, jellyfish-like super-predators that prowl the hurricane slipstreams.
Wanking is our genius. Our legacy.
As hilarious as this is, pretty much all mammals, several birds and reptiles and some other animals masturbate.
Adding into this, one of the funniest things that ever happened when I was a kid is my cousins were taking a picture at this family reunion. It was at one of their farms, and they had a horse standing next to the truck they were taking a picture in front of. The horse kept making weird grunting noises, and then right as we started snapping pictures it reared up and smacked this poor girl in the face with its dick, and then preceded to jizz on the other 3 people taking a picture.
