tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 30 20:03:57 1994
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Re: Klingon sexuality
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: Klingon sexuality
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 22:00:46 +1000 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Richard Kennaway" at Jul 1, 94 10:36:09 am
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Richard Kennaway jay'?
(Why email? If it's about Klingons, I think it pertains to the list.)
=For various reasons, I'm suddenly curious to know if there is any reference
=to the sexual orientation and practices of Klingons in the Star Trek
=universe, preferably in canonical sources. (I'll consider non-canonical
=published novels, but fanfiction doesn't count.) All I know of is the
=heterosexual courtship section in PK and Worf's mention in ST:TNG of the
=enamoured male reading poetry while the female throws rocks.
We have Worf's unease about androgyny in _The Outcast_, that notorious
crypto-reference to gay rights (not so crypto towards the end); we have
charghwI''s speculations on the homosocial nature of the head-butting
ritual; we have Lursa and her sister's cleavages... and that's all I'm
aware of. And Worf isn't that regular a Klingon anyway; it becomes fairly
clear in the series that he rather romanticises Klingon society. So even if
there are proscribed sexual practices, the gritty Klingon world we see
(when not mediated through Worf's eyes) would probably also involve sexual
dissent.
Nick.