Tim saw Ilya's reaction and immediately he knew he did something wrong. That advanced mind of his raced as he listened to the merman, filing away everything said for a later date. A lot of it raised questions in him that he was fighting back the urge to ask.

At Vivian's question, Tim shook. his head.

"We have not. I believe the correct term for what we have done is...making out?" he frowned a moment. "But my programming suggests that it is a part of sexual intercourse but not he complete act, explaining my confusion," he explained, tone neutral. "As for reproduction, yes. Normally it is only possible with one member of each gender. But there are ways to produce a lifeform from just one person or even multiples of the same gender such as the cloning process that created me. The three people that make up my genetics are all male."