A secret advantage in biegn a male naga?

Okay in Felarya there's all kinds of low hanging branches, rocks and crap like that only to the power ten. So in some likeyhood you're proubly going to take a low blow. Heck it may even come from a fairy who shrank down just to show you how much she thought of your escaping her the first time and having to make her track you down from the Forest of Wispers to Jadong Lake. The point is as male human this would HURT! though while RPing with Nyaha I had a character who was male naga and I was going to have him so distracted he ran into a rock and - *Insert painful , but masculine cry here* - tjhen I realized this might not harm him cause most male nagas have plates to cover their private parts right? Or am I wrong?

It seems to be illustrated that way, and it would make sense. I wouldn't think of it as a plate, but his genitals would be retreated inside his body, so you would have a layer of dense muscle, and probably a layer of scale, so he would be pretty well protected.

What Evil Genius said.

I HOPE it's that way. Otherwise it would be sheer torture being male in general, let alone being big enough to have a wayward boulder smash into YOUR boulders, if you get my meaning.

Then again, females don't have anything exposed. It's just a slit, all the actual reproductive organs are inside her body. On males it would Be the same way, and it might actually appear as though he has a vulva, until he intends on reproducing.

Oh this conversation.

I have this chat with Shady_Knight all the time over messenger, because personally if I may be so bold, it annoys the living daylights out of me that the vaginas on nagas are exposed. I never write them that way, nor should I draw them that way. Aside from detailed evolutional theories, I would just say that it makes far more sense for it to be concealed. Everyone's seen Terra's drawing of this right? A Giant Female Naga tries to climb up the tree and gets splinters in her crotch.

So for my assessment, I just say that we only draw female nagas to have exposed vaginas for the sake of our fantasy, but in reality they are actually concealed up. I would imagine when time for sex they'd just use muscles down there to slide the scales open, or the their crotch would have scales on the skin of the cameltoe (the bulging part of skin beside the slit) but the scales would be somewhat soft right next to the actual 'entrance' this way sex wont be so painful. Also it should be noted, since many people seem to draw vaginas as partially open (yay fetishes), that's usually not the case. Vaginas are normally closed in real life. I wanted to say this so we don't actually use fetish-based pictures as material for arguing.

Of course as for the conversation I have with Shady_Knight he usually just doesn't want to talk about it much, and thinks its just something we should not worry about (the girls might think differently). So I usually don't get too far with him XD

EvilGenius wrote:

Then again, females don't have anything exposed. It's just a slit, all the actual reproductive organs are inside her body. On males it would Be the same way, and it might actually appear as though he has a vulva, until he intends on reproducing.

O.o That could be akward with humans or other species that don't understand. Though it would provide allot of humorous encounters. XD

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So for my assessment, I just say that we only draw female nagas to have exposed vaginas for the sake of our fantasy, but in reality they are actually concealed up. I would imagine when time for sex they'd just use muscles down there to slide the scales open, or the their crotch would have scales on the skin of the cameltoe (the bulging part of skin beside the slit) but the scales would be somewhat soft right next to the actual 'entrance' this way sex wont be so painful.

Hey that works. That's actually a good point really. I mean everything that's drawn doens't always have to be a real example of what's in Felarya or even canon to it's world setup and it adds to the naga reproductive cycle, which doesn't have allot of data as far as I know...In fact is there even page in the wiki ON mating habits? Or here for that mater?

I would think it would be funny if they had mating seasons like real snakes. Except this is Felarya. So instead of males seeking females I'd imagine it would be more like Vivian and Malika grabbing the nearest thing that moves, Anna probably just gets more angry because she doesn't let Vivian help her release her tension, and Crisis probably "feels funny" but Vivian helps her with that. Also Kaiten is probably hiding in a hole from Vivian and Malika the whole time.

Some slight clarification before I give my two cents worth. The vagina is never exposed in the art, really. While we have come to think of the two terms as mutually interchangeable, what we see in the girls of Felarya is primarily the vulva, (unless the manga gets significantly more explicit) and not the vagina, which isn't visible unless something holds it open. If we were looking at the vagina, we would likely also be seeing the clitoris and urethra, possibly even the skene's glands (not that anybody draws those) The proper term for what was previously called 'cameltoe' is the mons pubis (or labia majora, depending on the exact location): cameltoe specifically refers to when the mons pubis is visible because of very tight clothing.

Now then, with that out of the way...

That the lovely ladies of Felarya seem to be quite unprotected compared to their male counterparts is certainly odd. It's a common misconception that girls are less sensitive to groin attacks than men. Just because the plumbing is internal doesn't mean the area isn't loaded with nerve endings that are just as susceptible to extreme pain (and pleasure, of course). One might also argue that girls are more vulnerable to serious damage, thanks to having less cushioning for the pubic bone (whether a broken pubic bone would prevent 'walking' in a Naga or Dridder is unknown to me). Sure, guys can suffer testicular torsion, but you MIGHT still be able to at least walk to get help in that condition (would Felaryan healing cover a twisted spermatic cord?)
On the other hand, fetish fuel. There's something very appealing about girls walking around naked like it's totally normal (because it is, for most of them). I still wonder why some have no pubic hair to speak of, but that's a question for another topic. Actually, they seem to be primarily Nagas, so that might answer it, if it's a point where the snake half and human half meet, otherwise... giant obsidian razor, maybe?

Nice to get the terms straight. hehe.

if you took a bat and hit a guy and a girl both in the groin, the guy would be the less incapable of moving, whereas if the hip bone on either gender broke in some way, neither person would be able to walk anyway, so that doesn't matter, even if this was about who can take more pain and still stand up. The issue is that the "vulva" is still exposed and sensitive - and I believe as do many others this could be done something about. I did suggest on an earlier post that scales could hide the vagina (which would be shown on a naga, because they dont have legs), and slide back, or get slightly softer, what have you.

I'm not about to suggest that instead of wearing nothing at all, every felarya pred, giant or not start making fur clothing and hide their body parts. I believe that making our lovely ladies wear clothes would, sadly, put everyone in a fit. Arguments for the ability to make clothes in a Jungle is reserved for another conversation.

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