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Since this image seems to be my dumping grounds for thoughts on kirin reproductive biology…

Here’s another pic where pubic tufts ring her dangly loop

Anyway, back on (this off) topic…

Female kirins rub their undersides on the smooth back (and nasal) scales of the males they claim. Gay males do not generally exhibit such marking behavior. Lesbians take turns laying claim to the other to ensure their bond hand bidirectional solidity.
In therms of female kirins falling in love with a human, they do not mark clothed humans, as the clothing is too much like the fur on the undercarriage of a kirin. However, they’ll rub themselves all over a nude human, as the plain skin [and most distributions of human body hair] is smooth enough to remind them of a scale rubbing.

kirin pubic floof is top UNF

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Speaking of kirin penis, >>2508232 presents a nice interpretation of how deer could hybridize with an equine dragon as well as a discussion on burn-related safety concerns.

Extra tufts of fluff around the naughty bits? I can’t believe I haven’t seen any other artists draw them before. Actually, I can imagine why: if they were as thick as the dock tuft in , then the goods wouldn’t be visible. I’m not generally a fan of bush (the band, the presidents, or the hair), but I’ll gladly make an exception for this species.

I do hope you all don’t mind a (very long) HC dump about Kirin courtship & mating practices. It felt gratuitous to make a dedicated thread for the topic and my thoughts expanded far beyond a single paragraph I can put behind a spoiler in a primarily SFW discussion thread.
My original intent was to keep this following section as dry and objective as a textbook on animal husbandry. However, the subject matter means that at least ten people will find it to be concentrated fetish fuel no matter how flat I make it. Furthermore, just consider the venue (a.k.a. a comment under this specific image) where I’m writing. Therefore, I’m leaving in any extra colours of steamy romance.

Now that I’ve seen the above linked image, I now HC female kirins as having thick tufts under their docks that are extended coat hairs rather than fluff hairs. Male kirins are just as bare back there as pony stallions. It offers a nice view of their balls when they lift their tail to offer a peek. I have not yet decided how much of each orginating species (pony, deer, or dragon) contributed to the design of their penis. Perhaps the exact mix is individual to each male. I do like the idea of their nutsacks being nice and fuzzy with dense short coat hairs that appear a darker color due to skin pigmentation showing through.

Enough about the males and back to the subject of the featured image: pubic fluff on the females.
Unfortunately for musk lovers, their regular nirik flashes don’t let the usual biological odors accumulate back there. Instead, the two most iconic descriptions of the experience of sticking one’s muzzle into the fine hairs back there are

Journal of Sexual Chemistry, 18 A.L.R. No. 3, p. 64

23 pages before the end of The Kirin Chronicle, a travel diary gifted to Rockhoof by a contemporary of Clover the Clever. Name of the original author has been lost: later interviews with Rockhoof indicate that Wendy the Worldly may not have been the traveller and that she merely passed it along to him. The cutie mark on the journal is of a stylized white four-pointed star. The writing is clearly that of a unicorn in spite of horns or magic never being mentioned by the author.
Of note is how this author took the time to describe the fact that that particular tuft is shaped like an upside-down horse shoe: it covers the sides and top but the bottom is open to the ground. A creature standing directly behind a kirin with a flashlight while her tail was raised could see the goods with his head at the right height.

When a female has ignored too many serious heat cycles in a row, her love tuft and, often, parts of her tail may alight as if she was stuck in a partial nirik transition. When she reaches this sorry critical overheat state, she also will pant rapidly in short shallow breaths and act generally agitated, often no longer able to focus on grabbing a male. When they are on the hunt for a male in serious heat, females will approach males and then stick their rear ends near their face in the hopes that he will fill his nostrils and bond to her for that breeding session.
[serious heat = actively looking to get pregnant; casual heat and boredom sex are both exactly what they sound like]
Females who aren’t in serious heat as well as males flirt by blowing fiery kisses on their interest. Typical etiquette for first-time flirtation is to blow the kiss up the facial scales. Kirins who have previously established a positive mating rapport may blow those small tongues directly on the body part they wish to enjoy for casual mating. However, it is instinctual for females not to offer their hind fluff to the face of a male unless they intend to get pregnant and they will reject males who try to bond themselves back there with a kick.
Once bonded, males become extremely possessive of their lover until it is obvious that pregnancy was successfully conceived. Not only will they drive away other males, they will reject advances by other females, as accepting that advance gives an opportunity for another male to mate with his lover while he is covering the other female. During the bonded time, the pair will mate repeatedly. Once pregnancy is established, the pair parts for separate ways: the female to finish producing the kirling and the male either to do whatever it is males do or bond to another female. The time of bonding can last from as little as six weeks to indefinitely in the case of an infertile couple without a community to force the pair to break up and try again with different partners (often, both new pairings successfully produce offspring).
For more on kirin partnering dynamics, see my main post linked above.

In spite of its obvious application as a filter for their beer, kirins value bodily cleanliness more than ponies and generally wouldn’t use their pubic tuft in that manner, even though they know they can evaporate it with a quick flash after they’re done. They will, however, generally have no problem when they are asked to dispense their “beer” directly into their lover’s mouth and it dribbles all over the place and makes it real steamy back there.

That turned out to be the length of my original plan for the SFW post I linked upstairs.
In case any of you read all this, what nomenclature do you use for male and female kirins? It felt silly to repeatedly say “male” and “female” here, yet I can’t decide whether they’d use “buck/doe” teminology or “stallion/mare”. There’s also nothing preventing the mix & match options (“stallion/doe” or “buck/mare”) or some entirely new naming scheme. I also asked this in the SFW discussion thread.

That won’t be the last time you say that to me.

God I love Autumn