Recent content by Lodur

When Philip Jose Farmer have written "Open To Me, My Sister"? I guess, it was in early 1960-s. Around that time, descriptions of alien sexual anatomy and physiology was really new and revolutionary. But now it's really the old news and virtually no one will give a sh*t, as you've said.

1) There is quite a number of people with strong sense of smell. I, for example, is one of them. (Well, not to the grade of dog's sense of smell, but still...) 2) People's bodily excretions have odours, and is it so unbeleivable, that someone with sharp sense of smell can feel it even in small...

It's as old as the written history of mankind. Do you really never heard of Golden Age, Satya Yuga, etc.? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age

I don't know how it's in the US, but here in Russia professional ballerina can't be (even slightly) overly tall or overly muscular. Well, if she wants to ever be a prima, and not a part of corps de ballet during her professional carrier. Because every additional centimeter in height and...

I agree. In best case some gods could be considered ambivalent, like Egyptian Seth, Norse Loki, Indian Rudra/Shiva, etc. Some people can perceive them as evil, because of their past or future deeds, but majority don't perceive them as purely evil gods. In addition, in polytheistic religions, the...

In my country (as in many others where the Eastern Orthodox Church has a majority of believers: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia) Christmas will be celebrated on January 7th. So it was a normal working Monday.

Speaking of the thought process: James Joyce's Ulysses is famous for its use of the literary device known as "stream of consciousness", and the last chapter of the novel contains a description of the thought process of a woman (Molly Bloom), which many women consider to be quite close to...

On the other hand, not all drow worshiped Lolth. There were cities, that worshiped Vhaeraun, and neutral cities, that permitted different faiths. All of them tended to be ruled by males.

Khasi were definitely patriarchal. They had several siems (kings), obviously all male. I don't know about Garo people historical rulers, but society is nevertherless patriarchal. Though both Khasi and Garo are matrilineal communities. Indo-Aryans were originally matrilineal, but changed to be...

Oh... Now I see. Thanks.

Can you please elaborate a little bit on this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutherococcus_senticosus (roots) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aralia_elata (roots, maybe leaves also) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaponticum_carthamoides (roots) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinacea_purpurea (roots and leaves)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 1889. Lest Darkness Fall by Lion Sprague de Camp, 1941. In both MC does what you described. It's only those I was lucky to read and they popped in my mind in first two second of recollecting.