Sexuality in Oddworld

[Xorlidyr]

It is very beautiful.

[Nepsotic]

I've missed those cuntworms <3

[Admiral Zaarin]

That's how fleeches breed.

[Slog Bait]

It's good to see the cuntworms are alive and well on an alien planet. Warms my heart. :')

I think you’re all reading too much into the original comment. To me it’s Lorne hinting at how most of the Oddworld species we’ve seen have nonstandard reproduction based around queens, and the “controversial” part being either that a video game would feature characters so departed from traditional human concepts of romance and sex, or that a video game would have story elements of creatures being enslaved and then forcibly bred to produce more slaves.

I thought about all of this, but because I'm super self centered and assume everyone thinks like me I figured a non-human method of handling romance and sex wouldn't be that controversial for some reason. I figured when he said controversial, it would be more impactful, I guess.

I wonder what the general consensus of mudokons, glukkons, and sligs being a super species would be to people who haven't already known about it for over a decade. I still don't think it would be anything more than an "oh, okay" from the majority.

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yeah i've heard that mudokons are descended from birds so i assumed they didn't have dicks/balls and had something more resembling cloacas or something. i don't know much about birds though so i don't know if you can have a dick as well as a cloaca or whatever.

Cloacas can have concealed penises in them MA!!!!

[Alf Shall Rise]

Do you think Abe's a grower or a show-er?

[Nate]

I'm going to ignore the rather gross discussion that has taken place and simply say that my interpretation of Lorne's statement was simply that part of what he was exploring with Oddworld is how having the queen-based societal structures affect societies and the ways in which they interact. And he thinks that when they explore that in more detail that people will be shocked. I don't think he was actually talking about sex.

Oh, and there's more than one Mudokon queen.

[Vlam]

Ad he thinks that when they explore that in more detail that people will be shocked.

Yes, but why (nothing shocking in Oddworld games so far)?

[Slog Bait]

I'd assume specifically because it's "not conventional"

[Nate]

Shocked because it leads to tribalism and genocide and other political wonders.

[STM]

Did anyone ever play that Fat Princess game where you have to steal the opponents princess and bring her back to your base? (At least it was something like that)...well the next Oddworld game is going to be that, but with Oddworld queens.

And not I don't mean Nate and Alcar.

[Vlam]

I've found this thread:

Lorne doesn't specify what he's talking about in terms of sexual relationships, obviously. Who's to say that Munch's Oddysee was the intended medium for this controversey? Wouldn't surprise me if it was, as the reproductive models of Glukkons and Mudokons would have been seen, but I don't see this or hermaphrodites being all that controversial.

[Nepsotic]

I like the fact that we have a series focused on slavery, corporate greed and torture, and yet it's the superspecies that causes controversy.

[Vlam]

I've found this:

Alf: Well the procreation doesn’t have to be peaceful. Of course in our fairy tale minds we want it to be but it isn’t always so. As you may know creatures often act completely different in large groups. The larger the group, the stranger things get.

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...ralf8_03.shtml

[Alf Shall Rise]

Those are some pretty unfortunate implications.

[Nepsotic]

Sexy implications

[Gunnr]

Cloaca. I'm done.

[Nepsotic]

What

[Slog Bait]

What

[FennecFyre]

In the Butt

[Crashpunk]

[Wil]

Jumping in to make sure we all noticed that answer is responding to a question specifically bringing up how Scrabs must surely 'interact peacefully in order to procreate'. Just before anyone's imagination runs away with them.

[Havoc]

Too late.

[FennecFyre]

Maybe Scrabs will mock-fight eachother to determine if their partner is a good match to make strong offspring? Survival of the fittest and all that. So still lots of screeching and biting, just not as much killing.

[Nepsotic]

Pretty sure only males fight. Also, thinking about it, how the fuck do they fuck? I bet it's painful.

[Gunnr]

That depends what scrab genitalia looks like....0.o. Some in our animal kingdom have barbs, hook-like bits, retractable or disposable and regenerative like a slug and ...then there's the enchidna....ugh. Some females kill and/or devour the males after mating.
So maybe males scrabs fight to the death for breeding rights, and females kill off the males after mating.
Animals, animals, animals oh

[UnderTheSun]

Personally, I've stumbled upon a shameful reservoir of Oddworld Rule 34 that I'd quite like to forget.

On the topic of drone mudokons, the most description I've found of them is Alf answering a question regarding their appearance with, "Big eyebrows." I assume that, as drones born to facilitate genetic variation, they would probably have feathery wings to fly to other mudokon hives, or at least to serve as a courtship display.

[JayDee]

I think Mudokon Drones would just need a larger loincloth.

[Guineapiglet]

Since the comparison to a lot of OW species' breeding strategies are bees and ants, you'd think that most of them would be sterile female workers like with aforementioned species. The funny (or terrifying) thing is that, if mudokons are like bees, after mating the drone practically explodes off the queen, leaving some of his man parts inside her and dying paralyzed and member-less shortly after.

[FennecFyre]

Kinky.

[STM]

Since the comparison to a lot of OW species' breeding strategies are bees and ants, you'd think that most of them would be sterile female workers like with aforementioned species. The funny (or terrifying) thing is that, if mudokons are like bees, after mating the drone practically explodes off the queen, leaving some of his man parts inside her and dying paralyzed and member-less shortly after.

Not to mention the Queen is left with a pulsating, throbbing beenis attached to her, pumping her with sperm.

I really hope something like that is in any MO remaster.