In GOZR, there is no mention of sex, romance, marriage, or any of that stuff. There's a pronouns table on page 2 and only 50% of the results are male/female. Clearly, gooz don't have the same sex and gender ideas or hang-ups that humans have. It doesn't seem to be much of an issue for them.
The book mentions "delicious gooz babies" in the creature section. The nasty Harawg-Zuul like to eat gooz babies, according to the lore. And in the Recent Events of Some Gravity table on page 26, one entry is "Baby Boom". It says: "Thousand goozlings born one night. In the distance creaking wings, ancient hungry devil!".
So the gooz aren't super hung up about sex and gender, but they do have little goozlings. Where do they come from?
Is it simply that gooz do hook up, bang, and pump out little gooz babies? But they're just not obsessed about it all? Or maybe gooz babies appear spontaneously where someone spilled some milk or honey? Or maybe there's a super-science device deep in Goozer City, built by the long-dead Pretty Ones, and it randomly creates new gooz?
In a little comic, seen below, I have a gooz mention his auntie. This would suggest some kind of familial hierarchy. But then again, one doesn't have to be related by blood to be an auntie. Maybe gooz aunties and uncles are honorary, not obligatory.
I'm just asking questions here. The mystery remains, for now.
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