Just Asking Questions
Its not justAvatar sexy blue humanoids have a long pop cultural lineage.
I have thought about having sex with aliens for years.
Now, the rest of the world is finally catching up.
I dont know if we should f*ck the aliens.
I just know that we really want to, especially when theyre blue.
Somehow, it seemed, the color blue had become inexorably entangled with aliens sexual appeal.
Five months ago, I set out in earnest to unravel the mystery of blue aliens sexual appeal.
Id hoped to find fellow experts in alien sexuality studies, but its been a lonely road.
The closest thing to existing literature on the subject is the work on blueness itself.
She suspects that blue and green feel particularly alien because theyre so uncommon in mammals on Earth.
(Think ofStar Treks Orions,Lost in Spaces Athena, the phrase little green men.)
In art history, she says, strangely colored figures likeghostsor witches were almostalways green.
Green was the most treacherous color, especially in European art history.
To want to f*ck blue makes you a modern girl.
Kelleher also points out that many of my aliens share a particular, cornflowery shade of blue.
Its a color that lacks all charge, she said.
As Kelleher says, The ickiness of sex is stripped away from it.
Such an intimate aliens touch might roil the tissue of received reality.
I am reminded, too, of the spur Dixon gave herIce Planet Barbarians.
Youll never feel that intimate aliens touch, never know the pleasure of an Ice Planet Barbarians spur.
Venus has emerged from the green-blue seafoam; Cthulhu has come down from the cosmos.
Time to fire up that Kreature toy.
This article was originally published onAug.
