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| 18 | 29 | View more quotes about amongst">Amongst Kurii nibblings and bitings are common, not to injure, but rather to signal that harm, which might be done, is not done. |
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| 18 | 26 | This act, which seems to be a cultural act, was not fully understood by her. |
| 18 | 27 | It is an act not uncommon amongst humans, or, indeed, certain other species, but it is not universal even amongst humans. |
| 18 | 28 | Universal, of course, are sexual advances, provocations, and such, of one sort or another, uncustomary nearnesses, touchings, caressings, rubbings, postures, dances, and so on. |
| 18 | 29 | Amongst Kurii nibblings and bitings are common, not to injure, but rather to signal that harm, which might be done, is not done. |
| 18 | 30 | The male, for example, may close his teeth on the female, possessively, but not tear her, and the female, in response, if acquiescent, may similarly bite at the male, as though defensively, but not to the point of blood. |
| 18 | 31 | If she is not acquiescent she can inflict serious injury. |
| 18 | 32 | Kur courtship, so to speak, is analogous to circling, and leaping, and feigned biting, which sometimes becomes dangerous. |