Comment author: CannibalSmith 06 February 2009 01:21:44PM 2 points [-]

Anyone want to try defining Untranslatable 2?

Comment author: paradoxius 16 July 2013 04:55:15AM 3 points [-]

"Mental bonding" is a close approximation. In science fiction, similar systems are referred to as "mind-melding" in Star Trek, although this interaction is not sexual in nature, albeit platonically intimate, and simply "the bond" in Mass Effect, which is a much closer analogue, since the beings who use it do use it for reproduction.