What if they gave you consent before they shifted into their non-sentient form?
Good question! Someone write Ann Landers.
Also, what if the species is sentient but they don't believe in free will, so "consent" is meaningless for them?
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2011 1:01:29 pm PDT #10994 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Toddson - Jun 02, 2011 1:02:43 pm PDT #10995 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It seems part of the reason bestiality is considered immoral is that animals can't consent to sex with humans. Which is obviously not an issue with a sentient, consenting dolphin.
Drowning, however, is.
billytea - Jun 02, 2011 1:06:23 pm PDT #10996 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dolphins are sentient. I think you mean sapient. (Or maybe consentient.)
DavidS - Jun 02, 2011 1:08:27 pm PDT #10997 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dolphins are sentient. I think you mean sapient. (Or maybe consentient.)
Pssst, billytea thinks doll bins are salient. Pass it on...
billytea - Jun 02, 2011 1:08:35 pm PDT #10998 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Incidentally, my brother once sent me, for reasons best known to himself, a how-to guide on seducing a dolphin.
Toddson - Jun 02, 2011 1:10:08 pm PDT #10999 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've heard stories that, in the swim with the dolphins features at water parks and such, there have been problems with male dolphins, shall we say, putting the moves on the human swimmers.
Jesse - Jun 02, 2011 1:10:40 pm PDT #11000 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh good lord -- I just had a flashback of a story I've read about that, and the resulting child.
Jessica - Jun 02, 2011 1:10:47 pm PDT #11001 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I go grey for 12 hours and I come back to seducing dolphins? This is why I can't have a job that keeps me off the interwebs.
Strix - Jun 02, 2011 1:11:54 pm PDT #11002 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Consent before shifting...I dunno, depends on worldview. Sometimes, the human self or soul and the animal self are clearly two separate entities, and in some 'verses, they are not.
I think, even if the human part gave consent, if the animal part was frightening or unwilling, it would be...rape. I dunno. Rapiality? Beastirape? Hmmm.
But if the animal part were participatory, then it would be consensual, if fuzzy, sex.
Huh. I'm just going to say it's safer, all the way around, to avoid sex altogether with shifted shapeshifters.
Other non-human sentient creatures, well, I guess let you tentacled, disembodied, multilegged, slimy, dry, rocklike, whatever freak flag fly.
And now I have to dogsit. And feel vaguely guilty.
Sheryl - Jun 02, 2011 1:13:41 pm PDT #11003 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay Kathy!
Yay Gud!