Even though you wrote it wrong, you are not far off.
Basically Vulcans have learned to suppress their emotions. But once in a while they get an immense urge to procreate that overwhelms their logic and makes them go feral for sex.
Without the emotional repression the Romulans probably hump more than Irish Catholic rabbits. Which is likely how they're able to fully staff a massive navy which rivals the federation
They were supposedly modeled after Athenian democracy (vulcan) and Roman imperialism (romulus = Rome = Roman founder). So you know some kinky orgies be going down