Dunno if the author intentionally wrote it this way taking into consideration male orca sexual maturation and sociosexual behavior (judging from the fact they wrote about a "beast in heat", I doubt it) or if it was just the display of the animal-human hybrid lacking knowledge of sex with a human, but in real life, male orcas within an immediate matrilinial pod do, in fact, practice playful sexual courting with each other, and the ML shows he lacks said practice. Given the fact the he has lived in captivity mostly all his life and couldn't learn sexual behavior with his male siblings or cousins within a pod, it makes sense he's clueless with the MC (and sadly forced himself on him), and yet open to learning. Wanting to please and know what to do is something an orca would do. So that part was accurately written, intentionally or not.
In fact, orcas do have sexual encounters based on mutual pleasure and cooperation rather than coercion or subjugation. Their mating can go on for up to a week, and involves lots of foreplay during the courtship. The female orca is the one who chooses to engage or not to engage, and if she likes the courting or not. Male orcas have to be attuned to that, and the ones who aren't probably don't get to mate. (They're highly empathetic animals; they have a part of the brain we humans and probably most if not all mammals don't possess, not in the same way like the comparable, much smaller, limbic system - the paralimbic system. It's an enlarged, dense structure responsible for emotional processing, spatial and long term memory. Orcas' brain folding as well as insular cortex make it so they have highly developed self and social awareness, empathy, social bonding, social skills, etc.). So in conclusion, ML's mating behavior is rather atypical, but it makes sense as he lives in captivity, and sadly, orcas in captivity are stressed and don't behave like they would normally in the wild.
What's rather atypical is also the fact the ML, as more or less an orca, is very attached to the MC. Again, we could attribute this to the life in captivity and the fact he's not a typical orca as he's a hybrid, but irl and in the wild, orcas are polygamous and don't bond for life.
Dunno if the author intentionally wrote it this way taking into consideration male orca sexual maturation and sociosexual behavior (judging from the fact they wrote about a "beast in heat", I doubt it) or if it was just the display of the animal-human hybrid lacking knowledge of sex with a human, but in real life, male orcas within an immediate matrilinial pod do, in fact, practice playful sexual courting with each other, and the ML shows he lacks said practice. Given the fact the he has lived in captivity mostly all his life and couldn't learn sexual behavior with his male siblings or cousins within a pod, it makes sense he's clueless with the MC (and sadly forced himself on him), and yet open to learning. Wanting to please and know what to do is something an orca would do. So that part was accurately written, intentionally or not.
In fact, orcas do have sexual encounters based on mutual pleasure and cooperation rather than coercion or subjugation. Their mating can go on for up to a week, and involves lots of foreplay during the courtship. The female orca is the one who chooses to engage or not to engage, and if she likes the courting or not. Male orcas have to be attuned to that, and the ones who aren't probably don't get to mate. (They're highly empathetic animals; they have a part of the brain we humans and probably most if not all mammals don't possess, not in the same way like the comparable, much smaller, limbic system - the paralimbic system. It's an enlarged, dense structure responsible for emotional processing, spatial and long term memory. Orcas' brain folding as well as insular cortex make it so they have highly developed self and social awareness, empathy, social bonding, social skills, etc.). So in conclusion, ML's mating behavior is rather atypical, but it makes sense as he lives in captivity, and sadly, orcas in captivity are stressed and don't behave like they would normally in the wild.
What's rather atypical is also the fact the ML, as more or less an orca, is very attached to the MC. Again, we could attribute this to the life in captivity and the fact he's not a typical orca as he's a hybrid, but irl and in the wild, orcas are polygamous and don't bond for life.