Inter-species relationships are not common but you can bet Humans have the highest percentage of them. -- Anon Guest
Love? Love is strange. Especially when it's Humans doing it. For them, love is many things and not a single one of them is rational, logical, or reasonable. There is, for instance, no reasonable reason why a Human would fall in love with a Chitanean, but they can, have, will, and do.
Love, the Humans insist on pointing out, doesn't necessarily mean that the plumbing has to be compatible. It doesn't even mean that the plumbing has to touch. So long as there is mutual benefit, love can grow.
It's no shock that the Humans have at minimum seven types of love, and an uncounted number of methods for coupling. They're creative. Love, like life, finds a way. Humans seem culturally prepared to look at a creature that could kill them in one swat and think, "Yes. I will take that home with me[1]."
If one is morbidly curious and something of a masochist, then they can take the deep dive into Humanity's own history and discover a bizarre phenomenon. Monstrophilia.
There is no creature so grotesque, no nightmare turned flesh, no combination of disgust and hatred so repulsive, that some Human somewhere will think it's somehow attractive. The Humans even have a word for it.
Monster[FORNICATION]ers.
This, combined with the Human's Rule 34 has lead to some truly terrifying art works in prose and picture. There's an entire chapter of the Archivaas to make certain everything is tagged properly and kept behind the appropriate safeguards.
Some things, Havenworlders would literally die to know. Best to keep it well away from them and in plain brown paper wrapping.
With this significant cultural background, the surprise is not that Humanity is, above all other species, the most likely to be in a xenorelationship... The surprise is that all of them are not.
[1] See: the entire history of domestication except housecats. They DIY'd.
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