==The Marring Man Plan or The Caper Unfolded== Ch.3
"We could make him one of our family, Join with him." She said to her Joined.
"And why would a human male be interested in Joining with us?" her Joined replied.
"Because their matings are such lengthy affairs. Recall that they are always engaged in the mating dance. Thus they form bonds between individuals of either sex so as to provide them with access to a mating partner on a protracted basis.
This pair bonding of theirs as you recall is little different from our own Joining in forming families, except that there primary motivation is the production of offspring rather then the rearing of them." Doxy reported.
"You have said nothing to mitigate the confusion I have, why would a human male Join with us?" Her Joined, Roxy, was very perplexed.
"We will be his mating partners." Doxy spoke in somber tones.
"That is absurd, we are of a completely differently species no offspring could ever be produced." Roxy countered conclusively.
"Human males care only very little in actually reproducing, they care more for the dance itself." Doxy rejoined with conviction.
"And why would this human male even be willing to dance with a non human?" Foxy chimed in.
"Have you not seen the most explicit of the human porn files? There is a section devoted to a form of human mating that while prohibited by legal statute demonstrates that some of them are so consumed by their mating dance that they will even engage in the dance with lower species native to their own world, this type of mating with lower species is termed bestiality."
"And this human you have met engages in bestiality?" Roxy wanted to know.
"No! He was revolted and deeply ashamed that I had even learned of such "acts" in their files!" Doxy reported.
"Your words cross back on themselves again and again! I asked why this human would be willing to Join with us and all you tell me is one reason after another as to why he won't." Roxy complained.
"The matter is most complex, I know. But I will endeavor to make all clear to you. As you have seen, though we are very different species we do largely resemble one another. And further as you have seen the females of their species engage in a myriad of practices to alter their appearance in ways to artificially produce appropriate visual cues for the stimulus of their males. An example of this is their cranial hair growth that is but one of their many artful alterations that they engage in."
"Truly you strike me dumb! We have no hair cranial or other wise to alter, again the more you tell of us their mating desires the more you prove we are not suitable in the least!" Roxy countered again.
"We can add to ourselves false hair or even substitute hair growth upon the cranium with a suitable garment as needed." Doxy rejoined.
"How would even an addled human male be fooled by such false appearances that would obviously be the result?"
"The males would not be fooled, rather it is that they do not care overly much about the veracity of ones appearance. Have you not noticed the females applying pigments to their finger tips and mouth edges? They do so in plain sight of their males, no attempt to conceal this is made. I have learned that the males often are stimulated by such pigments, though it seems that many of the females choose pigments that the males are not stimulated by."
"Why would they choose pigments that are not stimulating?" This time it was Foxy who asked.
"I have asked and received no good answer, except "fashion"".
"And what is this "fashion""?
"I admit I have not followed up on this topic. My investigation has been more focused on how to induce a male to Join with us. The fashion area is of concern to their females alone, almost none of the males would deign to speak of it."
"Were there not even some males that took an interest in "fashion"? Foxy was curious.
"Yes oddly there were a few, about 1 in 10 males I have spoken to found it a topic of deep interest. Even more oddly they also had no interest in coupling with their females. But the influence these particular males had on the fashions the women chose was extraordinary!"
"Their mating desires have driven this race insane!" this was Roxy's solemn conclusion.
"Of that there can be no doubt. But we digress, if I might continue. We can alter our appearance to make ourselves more sexually desirable to the human males." Doxy returned the focus of the conversation back to her original point.
"With the human females engaging in this "fashion" which most of their males care not a wit for, and the majority of their males unwillingly to speak of it, how will we know which alterations the 9 out of 10 males care for?" Foxy was concerned.
"Ahh... That is not difficult at all. While we have been warned that the humans find explicit conversation on their mating practices a taboo topic, the males will endlessly discuss which females are attractive and for what reasons. Though you must take care not to be in the presence of any of their females or the males will not speak truthfully." Doxy's lecture continued.
"The human males make it a secret of what they find desirable in human female appearance from their females?" Foxy was incredulous.
"That is just what they do! I was amazed at this too. The even more amazing part is that the 1 in 10 males we spoke of earlier, they can not be shut up on this very self same topic. They go to great lengths to actively criticize the human female's appearances. And the human females follow their opinions very closely. The result is that the females choose appearances that are pleasing to the males who would not choose to mate with them in the first place."
"Insanity! The A'hem were wise in their decision to conceal our presence here from the humans. The more you tell us of what you have learned the less I would be willing to have such a mad species roaming interstellar space." Roxy was beside herself.
"It is not as bad as you have imagined. The males are far less subject to this kind of psychosis unlike their females. And indeed are predictable in response to many stimuli. It is their females that are the unpredictable ones. I have even noted that the females do not work well with other females, that is how difficult they are, they can not even get along amongst themselves.
The males however I have observed love to form cooperative collectives to engage in ritualized combat that requires teamwork on a such a closely sensitive level that they can make only a gesture to communicate complex actions to their fellow collective members.
Where as the females will often gather and engage in a form of communication that they call "gossip". During these communication sessions they will exchange words endlessly but no matter how much time passes no conclusions are ever drawn nor are there ever any actions undertaken."
"I think you have convinced me that these males are cursed to have these human females. But I believe I see where your plan is to take us. We can dominate the human race by substituting ourselves for their females! Well at least 9 in 10 of them that have desire for female companionship." Roxy surmised. "Though I wonder...Tell me, is this male minority, these 1 in 10 humans the best and brightest of them, and thus have they concluded that their females are not worthy of themselves?" Roxy pondered.
"Oddly no. Though the ones I have met were the more creative, they were much more like the females in their manors and desires. But again we stray from our central topic." Doxy corrected and again tried to return to the original topic.
As I was saying, I believe the males can be made to show mating interests in us by applying a small number of false pigments and minor enhancements to our bodies. And that the close continual proximity forced upon deep space mission crews will provide a chosen male no escape from a barrage of continual and repeated visual and audio sexual stimulation cues.
It is my conclusion from what I have learned that repeated couplings can cause pair bonding to occur within the males. This will thusly make a male much more inclined to be Joined with us. And once pair bonded they often become most protective of their female mates as well. And as I told you before they are very competent in their marshal skills." Doxy was summing up.
"You have again lost me...I have seen their couplings. The one male had a phallus that we could never accommodate. It is my understanding that the human female's eggs lay buried inside there abdomen and the lengthy phallus is needed to inseminate these deeply buried eggs. The Saurian male inducement horn is only long enough to induce our eggs to drop from us before he then spills his seed to fertilize them." Roxy stated the obvious.
"Yes the porn files all show human males sporting very lengthy phalluses, but the ones shown in the files I have learned are not a normal sampling of their species. Rather they were an especially chosen few, selected primarily for their great phallus length." Doxy explained.
"Even given that, accommodating the non Saurian phallus these humans have will be difficult. Maybe even damaging to the egg chute?" Roxy was worried.
"Hardly, their phallus is only filled by fluids under pressure, unlike the Saurian egg horn. Also you must have noted in the mating files the men will be stimulated to release by a variety of methods that do not involve the normal reproductive channel." Doxy reassured her.