Schattenkeil wrote...
The presumption that the assari's tendency to mate with aliens is purely cultural does not fit the evidence - the Ardat Yakshi proof the opposite, as rare as it may be. A possible result of asari inbred. They may have come from an own homeworld mating with only each other, but they have evolved beyond that. Given their extremely long lifespan that's pretty remarkable though. Hat has been only 50 typical asari life span since the reapers last harvested the galaxy. If a trait of a species proofes beneficial, that trait becomes stronger. That's nature. Being able to adapt to all kinds of species is an extemely powerful trait of the asari. Espeically considering that as soon as they started mating with aliens (non-asari) the speed of evolution would rise dramatically, simply because they are able to adapt traits from those aliens.
How does the AY prove anything of the sort? The AY phenomenum
is the basis for the cultural opposition to pure-bloods, but has nothing to do with how the Asari evolved. It's a mutation/disorder, and certainly not proof of gender-specirid sex organs developing in 50 generations in the nether regions.
If you're talking about how AY evolved before there was any alien contact... well, of course. There were no alternatives to breed with. It's only been two Asari life spans since the Asari met their first alien. The cultural stigma against pure breeds could only follow the period of time in which 'pure breed' had meaning.
Remember the intensity of even the non sexual mind links? It must be something personal already otherwise they wouldn't be so very hesitant about it. Shiala sharing the cipher, a fundamental understanding for a race wiped out for 50 millenia. Or Liara helping you understand information you learned from the beacons. It is evident that you can share a lot of impressions through a mind link. Assuming that a sexual mind link is even more intense, why wouldn't you share physical pleasure, the sensation of each other through it. A sexual mind link would be less controlled, limitless... A few drop of water through an overflow as opposed to tearing the dam down.
The actually depicted stimulation I've seen seemed pretty physical to me. While my main had a LI with Kaidan in ME1 and none in ME2, one of my alts tried Liara, and it what I saw seemed pretty physical to me.
What you describe isn't physical pleasure, but empath pleasure. Which would, by it's nature, derive from the link, and not the Asari's own organs.
To differentiate: you support the additional presence of the Asari feeling what the partner is feeling: the Asari's pleasure is derived from the pleasure the partner feels. It doesn't even contradict my thrust, which was that sticking various stiff things up an Asari probably doesn't do much for her.
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To me it sounds like, while there are lot of conclusive reservations regarding interspecies sex, you are trying to see it the most unromantic view possible and grasping at anything that may indicate that. I prefer to see it the more romantic way, especially, as Mordin would put it, since "theory fits facts".
Well, I'd certainly question the presence of your facts, or the basis of the assuming them, but hey.
I plead guilty to putting it in unromantic terms, but then that's because I don't see it as particularly romantic to presume someone gets pleasure off the evolutionary equivalent of sticking something in a belly button or ear hole or a sucking chest wound. Generally the people who do get off on that sort of thing are a special brand of pervert.
Not all holes are created equal, yo.