"We have discovered very interesting things about the Aneilogs from studying the Rengel." Kamaline said.

"Oh?" I said. I wondered what they were going to show me.

"They don't have a privacy taboo." Stephanie said. Her eyes were sparkling oddly. "They tended to handle biological functions out in the open."

"Uh huh." The Turbo lift took it's time about getting down to the open cargo decks.

They originally held the houses and equipment of the Howard colony. Now they held everything we could reasonably strip off the Anilog ship Rengel.

"It seems that every two Terran years, Anilog females go into estrus. By all accounts they become very aroused." T'Sing said.

I looked at her, disturbed. Logical Vulcan Pixies shouldn't address arousal.

We walked across the large bay towards an area where Rengel hull plates and equipment racks were stored.

"They are also fertile." T'Sing, "Leading to the possibility of inconvenient unplanned pregnancies."

"Mmmm." I said. I didn't want to think about Anilog reproduction cycles any more than I had to.

"They have developed some interesting cultural adaptations to this mutually exclusive set of drives." Kamaline said. She said it like the punchline to to a joke.

Stephanie smiled broadly.

We turned the corner around an equipment rack.

There was a bench from the interior of the Rengel there.

A dozen objects protruded from the seat of the bench. They had an oddly organic shape to them. They were cobalt blue. They swept up from the bench in a curve and had an almost aerodynamic shape. They were about eight inches long

They were a pretty blue. The color reminded me off... what? Gensilan's lips and tongue, but they were a bright, raucous shade of that cobalt blue.

Two Science crew people, Mayweather and Rolla were very carefully scanning the objects, with what seemed to be careful attention.

I blinked at them. I was halfway through thinking "What in the hell are..." when it hit me.

A dildo station. A place where overly horny Anilog women could relieve themselves without risking an unwanted pregnancy.

I blinked as the image of this rolled through my mind. I could feel the blush washing over my face.

"uuuhhhh..." I said.

Kamaline giggled. I looked at her. She had her hand over her mouth and was physically holding in the laugh.

Briefly I wondered if she had tried one of them. The thought shocked me to my core as it happened. I boggled at Kamaline

She hadn't but she could see the thought cross my face. She bent over containing a squeal of merriment.

I looked at Stephanie. Her grin was just getting bigger and bigger.

I looked at T'Sing and she looked right back and raised her eyebrows at me. I swear she looked demurely amused herself.

I noticed the Mayweather and Rolla were both women. They were looking at me and trying not to snicker

Three things crashed into my mind at once. First, I found the Anilog dildo wall intensely... embarrassing, if nothing else.

Secondly, The women there knew this very well and found it vastly amusing.

Third, that I had no idea what to do with the feeling. I felt an accusatory glare slide over my face.

Mayweather and Rolla joined Kamaline in laughing out loud

The fact of the matter was that I enjoyed seeing them have that much fun. They reminded me of school girls. I guess we all need to take a step back to being 14 every once in a while.

I was concerned that making the captain the foil of such a joke was somehow undignified and not right.

I was as embarrassed as hell. I worked really hard to not see the women in my crew as sexual people. It helped me not to act stupid at them and around them. So for them to rub my face in the face that they viewed sexual issues so differently from me also brought up the hidden assumption that *they viewed sexual issues at all*. And that lead to trains of thought I just didn't want to deal with.

I put on an outraged face. "Hey now!" I barked. "I'm sure there's a regulation about fatally embarrassing the captain!"

That just made them howl louder, except for T'sing who nodded. "I will endeavor to avoid such embarrasment." she held it for a perfect two and a half beats. "Whenever possible."

More howls of merriment.

"Okay." I said "I know when I've been licked." I didn't mean it that way, but they laughed louder, and I shrugged to myself. Okay, I'll go with it.

"I'll just withdraw now." I said.

"Awww." Kamaline said as I backed away.

"Always too quick!" Stephanie snorted and the giggles started up again.

I walked back across the open area toward the turbolift shaft.

"Jesus Christ" I thought to myself. "A dildo bench." There were strange new worlds and then there were strange new worlds. Sheesh!

-*-

The turbo lift door slid open to reveal Gensilan.

She looked at me with a serious expression. I blinked at her for a bit trying not to picture anything having to do with her and the bench.

She grinned and it became more merry as the silence stretched.

"I didn't know why that piece of equipment would be humorous to them." Gensilan said, her voice as musical as always. I heard sparkling laughter in the back of my mind. "I understand now."

I stepped into the turbo lift exchanging places with Gensilan.

"You peeping Tom." I griped at her, But with a grin on my face.

She smiled and rubbed against me as she left the turbolift. "I like to do more than watch."

I stepped back and hit the control to close the door on her leer.

Damn I wished she'd stop doing that.

But not one hundred percent...