Pretty old thread, but I would like to point out few things from more scientific point of view. We should define sexual orientation first. When it comes to animals, it's described purely by behaviour (which of course is preceded by their drives). Humans are a bit more complicated, because we don't necessarily act according to our desires, and there's one more thing. As it turns out, "love" is separated system (with different brain structures that are responsible for it and with different hormones associated) than sexual drive and attraction. And many studies suggest that love, unlike the latter, is potentially gender blind.
The leading reseacher of female sexuality, Lisa M. Diamond, believes that women, like men, have inborn sexual orientation (by what she considers only sexual feelings), but due to different doses of current hormonal levels, for many women it is often blurred, and its love that's shaping their desires for most of the month (that's why the best indicator of women's real sexual wants is the time around ovulation, when sex drive is strongest).
Of course it's not equally true for all women, different factors attribute to it.
Generally, it would make sense if Asari followed this pattern. "Naturally" it would be only possible that they are attracted sexually to other Asari and Asari-like females from other species (for weird reason galaxy is full of them), because sexual attraction is a matter of reaction to sexual clues that are wired in brain, it's impossible to be wired to be attracted to different species which is totally alien by appearance.
And BTW, in some species of whiptail lizards there that are all-female - they do not "hit on" males from close species, those are all-lesbian species (even though theoretically they shouldn't need any sexual contact).
It would be reasonable to assume that simply many Asari are more driven by emotional attachments when forming relationships, just like many real life women (and for sexual fullfilment, just fantasize about other Asari when they are with those strange aliens like male humans or Krogans - of either sex).
But it means that there are propably also those for whom sexual attraction is much more important component, and technically they would be homosexual Asari.
It could be fascinating parallel story about the way society treats gay people, since the ostracism for pure bloods (what means that homosexual Asari are propably ostracized too). But of course, it would need better writers for that. Right now, Asari are sadly just blue space babes with very little background.
Modifié par misoretu9, 07 mars 2012 - 11:55 .
(The new Normandy's features, including aquarium had just been announced.)
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