Blueberry comments on Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 24 July 2010 07:45:49AM 0 points [-]

How would it even be possible to have sex with the mermaid with the fish bottom? I don't even know if that would work. Anyway, I'd pick the human bottom.

Comment author: JohannesDahlstrom 24 July 2010 09:31:54PM *  4 points [-]

FWIW, one way to solve this problem would be to postulate mermaids to be marine mammals (they do have a placental umbilicus and mammaries after all in most depictions...), so their bottom part would be more akin to that of a dolphin, not a fish.

Comment author: Nic_Smith 24 July 2010 05:27:24PM 4 points [-]

TV Tropes explains the (Infinite?) Mermaid Problem:

Alternatively, a sufficiently bawdy work—which one is likely to be if it brings up the Mermaid Problem in the first place—may simply point out that lower half aside, well... She's still got a mouth, ain't she?

Comment author: Blueberry 24 July 2010 08:56:10PM *  3 points [-]

Oh, duh, oral. I was assuming "have sex" didn't include oral.

Anyway, my answer is still the same.

Thanks for the link on the mermaid problem (and I managed not to open any other TV Tropes pages somehow!)

Comment author: Emile 24 July 2010 12:00:23PM 0 points [-]

So you want to be squeezing this?

Ew.

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