WARNING!  Lemon-related material!  If you are under 18 or easily offended 
by sexual material, stop reading now.



	While I am kinda enjoying "That Time of the Month", there was an 
article in the local paper that's sorta related.
	The question was, "do female cats have orgasms?"  And the answer 
to that is, "it's a grey area."  (note:  a lot of the following will be 
old news to cat owners...)
	Cats, like most mammals, have "estrus" (from the Latin for "goad" 
if I remember correctly) or as it's more commonly known, "heat".  They 
cannot finish their fertile cycle and ovulate until they've been mated 
with, and they can't leave estrus unless they ovulate.  (Or, apparently, 
a long enough time for the cycle to force itself.  No word on how long 
this takes, but it's going to seem *way too long* to the cat.)  So they 
stay in a constant state of sexual readiness until the male does his 
duty. 
	While every hormone in the female cat's body is screaming "get 
laid", it's unlikely they get too much pleasure from the act itself.  In 
fact, since the male's penis is barbed, it's probably painful for her.  
The barbs scratch the vaginal canal, which stimulates ovulation and 
allows the female to leave estrus.  So the feeling is likely less 
fulfillment than "thank Bast that's over."
	Humans thankfully don't have estrus per se; sexual desire rises 
and falls during the fertility cycle, but humans have evolved (or have 
been created) such that the "mate or undergo hideous mind-shattering 
torture" option is left out, letting women be sexually available just 
about any time they feel like it.  (Most men consider this a good thing...)

	Okay, so how can we use this in fanfiction lemons?
	Well, let us consider the prospect of artificially inducing 
estrus in a human(oid) woman via magic, chemicals or technobabble cat DNA 
infusion...  Some stupid hentais might see the "must have sex" line and 
assume they can use this to get the woman of their choice to consent to 
things she would not otherwise...
	Okay, so we now have a woman whose reproductive system is 
telling her "get laid now!!"  Women who already have preferred partners 
will probably be able to hold out until they can reach them, though if 
delays occur their emotional state might turn really nasty...  Others 
would probably be shopping pretty quickly.  Unfortunately, this still 
doesn't necessarily help our theoretical hentai.
	Y'see, humans have something cats don't.  Tool use.  Since all 
that's really needed is sufficient stimulation of the vaginal canal, a 
vibrator or cucumber or any number of less wholesome objects will do just 
fine to relieve estrus.  (Cats have to rely on a vet or a very careful 
owner to get the same relief...)
	Even if our hentai gets in bed with the woman, he's likely to 
find it a less than happy experience.  Since the woman is already at 
maximum readiness and quite possibly in pain, she's not going to be 
interested in much in the way of foreplay.  ("Stop licking me and stick 
it in there or I'll tear off your dick and do it myself!")
	Once she's been "stimulated" enough, the woman will go into the 
next stage of the cycle (and apparently it happens *real* fast) and will 
be completely unavailable for/uninterested in sex until the next time her 
fertility cycle kicks over (or the artificial source of the estrus wears 
off).  Thus the hentai, who's probably just warming up, now has a woman 
who *can't* be interested in him "that way"...  Not to mention that once 
the estrus is over and sanity has returned, the woman is likely to be 
very unhappy over her actions.
	And if it's estrus actually linked to the fertility cycle, as 
opposed to mimicing the symptoms, the woman has a higher than average 
chance of becoming pregnant...
	We'll leave aside the question of any pheromones that might be 
emitted by a woman in artificial estrus for another time...

	As for what this means for Shampoo, Luna and other anime 
cats...I'll let that be an exercise for the lemon authors....\


SKJAM!
(info from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo)