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covered-in-birthday-cake kind of sex, here. In a nutshell, sex with a Primal may

not always be pretty, but it’s definitely never boring.

Primals, like many of our four-footed friends, endeavor to process the world

through all five of their senses equally. Where the average human relies

primarily on sight and sound, a Primal will often call upon his other senses to

distinguish a scent, differentiate a taste, or pinpoint a texture. Sniffing or tasting

a person, place, or thing to learn more about it is a perfectly normal mode of

investigation for a Primal. Once a Primal has codified you in this fashion, any

change in your body chemistry is readily apparent to him. A person’s monthly

hormonal cycles, menstruation, sexual pheromones, medications, hydration

levels, hygiene, diet, and even diseases may be an open book for a Primal to

read. In additional to receiving and processing information to a greater extent

through scent, taste and touch, a Primal is also far more likely to transmit

information through those same senses. It is relatively common, for example,

for a Primal to mark his or her home, property, and even friends and partners

with a distinctive scent.

Another preference particular to Primals would be their attachment to the notion

of feeding, rather than simply eating and drinking. The connotations attached to

feeding suggest a more primitive and instinctive activity that can be applied to

more than just food. In the modern pop culture parlance of vampire lore, feeding

takes on a sensuously daring and primal ambience all its own which incorporates

itself nicely into the Primal subculture.

Primals typically form tight-knit social groups which they refer to as packs, and

they often place their allegiance to the pack higher than their loyalty to even

their biological families. Not all Primals are quite so pack oriented; it often

depends upon what sort of animal they identify with, and which of those animal

characteristics they emulate. Even when they are members of a pack, different

animal characteristics can lead to different sorts of behaviors. Canines, for

example, often hunt as a pack. Felines, on the other hand, may belong to a

pride, but prefer to hunt alone. Within a pack, hierarchies of dominance and

submission are typically more-or-less fixed, with an alpha individual (or

sometimes an alpha couple) leading the pack. Other members of the pack are

sometimes referred to as betas or omegas.

When it comes to mating strategies, it’s difficult to predict what a Primal’s

preference may be. He may show a preference for monogamy, polyamory,

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