How do mermaids reproduce? :)
They have nothing down there - just their tails, no genitalia :)
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Like fish.
shareBy laying eggs? :)
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Yes.
shareBut then Ariel would have MANY siblings :) Her mom would have laid a LOT of eggs - you know, like a fish :) Or snake :) Not too romantic :)
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Perhaps mermaids are much like fish who are egg depositors and don't lay as much eggs. Or perhaps they reproduce like livebearing fish and they don't lay eggs at all.
shareBut it it functioned like in fish, then a mermmaid would have to give birth, for the baby would be developing in her womb - and it seems such a mermaid has no vagina :)
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Fish don't have very prominent vaginas either, it's just a small opening. Mermaids seem to have big scales, which perhaps hide their reproductive organs. We're talking about a fictitious species here.
shareBut what about mermaid males then? It seems they have nothing down there. Even if it's a fictious species, still, it's that aspect they do share with real life folks - we reproduce and they also have to - but in what way?
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Livebearers have an anal fin instead of a penis. Mermaids could have something similar, perhaps it's hidden beneath the scales or maybe they can even retract it.
shareI know how fish do this - I keep black mollies in my fish tank - but in case of people - even if they do look like half-fish - it sounds funny :) It doesn't seem romantic - that their reproduction would boil down to their rubbing each other's cloacas :) Like fish - no wonder Ariel preferred a human to a male mermaid :) Lol.
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