For Writers: You Smell… Sexy?
Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Richard Wood: For LGBT or even “normal” sex with aliens, the pheromones are going to be WRONG almost certainly. Should a story include use of specially made perfumes or scents designed to overcome this turn-off to relationships? It’s an interesting idea. Why would an alien race smell sexy to us? Many people in the human race don’t titillate my nose buds. (Nose buds – is that a thing?). So my questions today – How would we get around this problem? Would those pheremones actually be a turn-on for some (hey I kinda like skunk … Read more