“I see now, Brad, that we were attracted to each other for simi-
lar reasons: there is a small species much like your native
monkeys that we keep for domestic pets on my home world. I’ve
always liked them but they’re too small to do anything with
without hurting them. I didn’t have a chance to do anything
about my fantasies until I came to your world.”
“How would your own people feel about your proclivities?” I
asked. “I didn’t know how your culture might feel about gays
when I approached you last night.”
“Our culture has no problem with it,” he answered. “Of course,
as a prince of the royal house, I am expected to produce sons of
my own to carry on the royal line. But there is a lesbian prin-
cess I know, a second cousin. We have agreed that we will marry
when the time comes and that she will receive my sperm by artifi-
cial insemination. No one will care what we do outside our
marriage as long as the next generation of Taurids comes along.”