Dawn

Dawn by Octavia Butler talks about sex and adaptation between humans and aliens as if it is a metaphor for black slaves and white plantation owners. Lilith in the story has to choose if she wants to breed with these aliens called the Oankali. They lecture her about how their way of life is better because of how none violent their way of life is and put down humans as they are violent by nature. Lilith is also denied any media about her culture. Just like a white slave owner would feel that he had saved his slaves from their barbaric ways in africa.

For the aliens sex is strictly creation. There are extremes differences between the humans and aliens. Humans use sex as pleasure as well as creation and they are not expected to have too many children. For the aliens sex is all about creation and are expected to have many many children. Humans pollute their environment. Aliens use every inch of their natural resources until some are extinct. The human repulsion of having sex with the aliens because they are monstrous may touch base with social classes and also could be racial. Such as a Wealthy person having relations with a very poor person or would be considered shameful by society. Or when a new race lives along side another one relations with the both sides will probably not be accepted for a long time.