Re: sexual dimorphism( was: So-called Alternative Lifestyles)

Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
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>>Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>>Don't know about the Meghean-speakers. I don't even know if homosexuality
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>>occurs
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>>>among them, but since sexual dimorphism is less pronounced among them than
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>>among
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>>>humans, it would seem likely.
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>>What do you mean by "sexual dimorphism is less pronounced among them"?
>>Does it refer to secondary gender characteristics?
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> "Sexual dimorphism" refers to anatomical differences between the sexes,
> particularly ones not directly related to sexual functions.
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> In this case, the chief difference as compared to humans is that elven females
> are on average only marginally smaller and weaker than males, and have what
> human males might characterize as a disappointing lack of curves. Elves of both
> sexes are decidedly thinly built by human standards. Their average height is
> about the same as that for men in neighbouring human communities.
I thought it would be like this.  At first I thought that Elf women must
at least have breasts, but then breasts needn't be large at all to
fulfill their primary function.  A woman I knew commented how her
"fried eggs" produced lots of milk while her friend's "balloons"
produced hardly any milk.

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