Oh gawd, now that I am burdened with this cursed knowledge you must be too. Welcome to this post about “The Harkness Test”, named of course after Jack Harkness from Doctor Who, that answers the question, “So you want to f*ck a fictional creature?” And lets you know if you can or not (with the keyword here obviously being *consensual*):
(via: Fangoddesses)
Has anyone thought that the parts might not be compatible? Tab A fitting into Slot B may not work.
It might be “swallow body whole, digest genetic material, and combine with goo from past lovers, then shit out and rub into egg storage organ.”.
or it might even get really weird…
Sure, but it’s got to be consensual. And consent can be revoked at any point. This is about pleasure not reproduction, and violations of others choice and bodily autonomy are wrong.
What might be pleasurable for a monster might not be pleasurable for you. And who said ever that a monster requires consent to pleasure itself?
You are applying human morality to creatures and that is an error in the Harkness test.
While interesting, this test does not really hold up under any real discussion of morality.
My guy. The whole point is that the two party’s ARE CONSENTING. Beastiality is wrong because the other party is not sentient enough to understand and give consent. If part of the monsters pleasure is harming their partner/partners in a way that was not consented to, it is bad and wrong. It then becomes a fictional horror story instead of smut. You’re talking about monster rape/assault/murder. You can consent to pain and injury within reason. But it’s something that’s discussed before hand in reality and not in books/videos because it’s not “sexy”. The whole morality is “safe, sane, and consensual” which cannot happen with an animal.
So you are defining consent in human terms. So your logic breaks down again. So to another creature, YOU are the monster doing the “rape/assault/murder”. Or maybe not. It depends on if, and it is a big “if” you can communicate with this other creature who views you as the monster, and what they think about the concept of consent. If they even understand the concept in their world. Consent may not even be a concept where they come from.
So the harkness test is fiction at best.
your concept of consent and your views of morality are great for humans. But other creatures from other worlds may have different ideas. If they understand you at all.
What you consider a violation may just be how they “shake hands” on their world.
Notice the second question : is communication possible with actual language ?
If no : abandon any plan
If yes : you can spend as long as necessary to determine what is acceptable, painful, safe, taboo, and so on.
“I must always be to the east of you, for religious reason”, “no getting any part of you higher than my crest”, “no touching on the left side”, “I must eat at least 23.78g of your flesh”…
It does not matter what their alien rules are, if they can vocalise them, you can work with that. Or drop the matter entirely, that works too, you are having a correct sexual interaction : limit yourself to things consented by all eligible parties, that is sometime nothing.
But you are still assuming they want/care/understand your human concept of consent.
I say the Harkness test is fiction. We can guess all we want, but we can only guess until we meet an actual alien.