You can occasionally find some good scifi stories/fanworks where the characters ignore the usual way of doing things or do things the alien-standard way, which is quite odd from a modern Western human cultural perspective.
...I recall one where the prospective one-night stand of the alien chick wanted to clarify if the human Platonic Life Partner ate eggs before committing to anything. (The aliens were basically birds.) To clarify, in this 'verse humans are terrifying, and it was assumed that the lady's social unit (which was her and the human) would co-raise any resulting kids.
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Date: 2021-03-21 03:22 pm (UTC)...I recall one where the prospective one-night stand of the alien chick wanted to clarify if the human Platonic Life Partner ate eggs before committing to anything. (The aliens were basically birds.) To clarify, in this 'verse humans are terrifying, and it was assumed that the lady's social unit (which was her and the human) would co-raise any resulting kids.