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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1583128" data-attributes="member: 12706">As far as the lack of genetics goes: Diseases should be almost entirely magical or parasitic, as you've pretty much done away with virii. Children would probably still favor their parents due to magical affinity, but might end up looking some like the midwife if she's a particularly strong Cleric, or having features that favor a magical creature (mother's familiar, for example), or.... well, you get the idea. In poly situations, the child might end up with traits from ALL of its "parents" if they're all have a magical affinity with the mother. This might actually inspire some spells to add to the Cleric's list - such as Marriage or Handfasting or somesuch, to actually "create" these affinities. Or not.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As far as GLBT and/or poly societies, you could pretty much do anything you want, but I would urge that you bear in mind natural gender urges and positive and negative population checks. First - natural gender urges: Females, deep down in their lower brains, are more concerned with having the BEST possible mate so their offspring are healthy and viable than with that mate being exclusive to them. Males, on the other hand, are more concerned with spreading their seed to as many females as possible. This means that your group relationships would probably have more females than males, and, if there's more than one male, there would be ONE male who would be DECIDEDLY "alpha" amongst the males - the other males taking on a certain feminine quality to their relations with him (not talking about cross-dressing or anything that extreme, just maybe a tendency to defer to him and a bit of tenderness in their feelings where he is concerned.) Similarly, in viable groups of ALL females, there would be one who takes on to a degree the attitudes of the aforementioned dominant male.Second - positive and negative population checks: In small populations, complete homosexuality and even bisexuality to a lesser extent have a tendency to be condemned - and usually the population comes up with some excuse (G-d says its BAD, for example) that has nothing to do with the real, lower-brain reason: In a society that NEEDS to grow to survive, it is a negative population check, because people of those tendencies are usually less prone to mate, and, with the bisexuals, they have more distractions from their offspring if they do mate. In larger populations, this situation reverses somewhat, and they become a positive population check - they are less likely to mate, and therefore they aren't producing an increase to an already large population that may bring that population into conflict over resources with other nearby populations. (That's right, I'm saying gay people help prevent wars!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) This, IMHO, is part of the reason the "Gay Towns", such as Greenwich Village in NYC, exist - aside from gays moving there to meet more people like them, they are also more welcome to the rest of a large city's population, who see them subconsciously as a positive population check.One last thought that occurred to me as I was typing this: Elves are frequently considered somewhat androgenous - heck, even I thought Legolas was prettier than a lot of women I've seen (and not necessarily ugly women, either), and I'm 99.44% straight. Why not go with that - since they're magic anyway, make them androgenous in such a way as they sort of "become" the appropriate sex to match with whomever they're in love with. And maybe they give brith in some wholly magical way that makes the "equipment" not matter, anyway....</blockquote>

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