A Swarm Cycle Story
Early in the Swarm Cycle, U.S. intelligence starts working with the Confederacy. An exceptionally capable, but self-questioning, expert builds the strategic intelligence function, and also his household and clan, fixing up some past relationships with very smart and sexy female colleagues. This is a story for people that like detailed military things along with their sex, and want backstory.
Ego is an interesting thing. It often leads us into doing and saying inappropriate things. A massive ego in a supposedly educated person who is in a position of power can have a devastating impact on those around them and change everyone's life forever. A short story about such an individual and his associates who were willing to tamper with things they did not understand.
Written way back in 1998 for a 'Virtual Reality' contest on alt-sex-stories, this story features a man who uses the holodeck technology from Star Trek : TNG to recreate his dead wife for one last special dinner date. Pretty much stroke.
In a species much like ours, there are no breasts and no placentas. Babies are nourished, before and after birth, by that other milky fluid the human species produces. Also, when trying to conceive a baby, both partners know at the instant of ejaculation whether an impregnation is taking place, the event being accompanied by extra pleasure.