XX chromosomes = elf, female

I don't explain anything that doesn't require explanation, which means there's alot of "wasted" lore. The players came to this world in the middle of a cold period, and for all they knew it was inhabited by a race of hairy manly-men and their androgynous wives. If they had tried to fuck one of the herms I suppose I would have had some explaining to do, but at that point they would hardly be able to accuse me of having a fetish. They did encounter a herm/herm couple while there. They didn't seem interested to know how they had children. The couple was poor (they can't venture out of the house and work for as long as the males can) and their infant mortality rate was high (their female offspring would die soon after birth from the ambient chill) and my players just decided both were due to oppressive patriarchal structures in place which are keeping them down.

I intend to have them return to the planet in 200 years, in the middle of a warm period. The situation will be the same (dominated by females, herms second-class citizens) but my expectation is that my players will feel it's much more fair because now the ones on the bottom are the "males".

I kind of hate my players for a number of reasons I won't get into here.

Not him, I think the problem is your player group. It sucks if the only company you can find are all prudes/freaks (both see perversion in everything, for different reasons).

...I am so fucking triggered right now.

Personally I'm just fascinated by evolutionary biology, so I've come up with all kinds of wacky reproduction systems fr my various fantasy worlds, and I always justify it (to myself: my players don't care) by thinking about how this system would have evolved. Yes, that means some of the time there are systems where the gender system isn't strictly binary. It's not because I have a fetish for that sort of thing, just because it's fucking INTERESTING.

>YYZ = audio bliss

Some people just don't seem to get that. You have to state that I AM EXPLICITLY MAKING A NEW BIOLOGY for them to understand, and then they are simply disinterested. Each to their own, but they have to get in a mood about people doing their thing, which isn't offensive or intrusive.

Dwarfism is real.

That explains a few things.