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maradyddAfter the jump, pictures from National Geographic.
Here is the head of the penis of a seed beetle. It is not ribbed for her pleasure -- those spikes help Mr. Beetle hang on long enough to deposit his sperm. Evidently they have become longer over the course of generations, as researchers as Uppsala University have determined that the beetles with the longest spikes have more success at breeding than their less-well-endowed relatives do. When you are a seed beetle, size does matter.
Wolf cocks, dolphin cocks, raccoon cocks -- there is some guy out on the Web somewhere who will sell you any of these as a dildo for your yiffing pleasure. (You know how sometimes you get really shitfaced, and you go looking around for the sickest thing on the internet, and rotten.com just isn't cutting it anymore? Yeah.) But I bet he doesn't make silicone beetle cock.
First, there was vagina dentata. Then the beetles gave us PENIS DENTATA.
However, to end on a more pleasant note, the Uppsala researchers have also made use of a beetle-sized penis pump:
Here is the head of the penis of a seed beetle. It is not ribbed for her pleasure -- those spikes help Mr. Beetle hang on long enough to deposit his sperm. Evidently they have become longer over the course of generations, as researchers as Uppsala University have determined that the beetles with the longest spikes have more success at breeding than their less-well-endowed relatives do. When you are a seed beetle, size does matter.
Wolf cocks, dolphin cocks, raccoon cocks -- there is some guy out on the Web somewhere who will sell you any of these as a dildo for your yiffing pleasure. (You know how sometimes you get really shitfaced, and you go looking around for the sickest thing on the internet, and rotten.com just isn't cutting it anymore? Yeah.) But I bet he doesn't make silicone beetle cock.
First, there was vagina dentata. Then the beetles gave us PENIS DENTATA.
The function of the structure is still unknown, researchers said, but it looks like it's made to "grab hold of" something, perhaps the inner genitalia of females.OH GOD NO PLEASE NO. There are genes that code for this. There exists some possible future where this gene gets transplanted into a human and we end up with penises that can bite the cervix and hold on. I have sufficiently terrified myself into not being able to sleep tonight.
However, to end on a more pleasant note, the Uppsala researchers have also made use of a beetle-sized penis pump:
The scientists then pumped up the sexual organ with a tiny artificial inflator powered by a water-jet vacuum pump.You're welcome. Sweet dreams!
Once fully inflated, the genitalia were stabilized in 212-degree-Fahrenheit (100-degree-Celsius) water and photographed.
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Date: 2009-03-02 01:32 am (UTC)I wanted to let you know, I got a letter from the Department of Revenue concerning the case I reported a few months ago.
That case being the big push submitting legal paperwork concerning the LDS' tax-exempt status.
They're requesting any additional information I may have and thanking me for contributing to the investigation, which they cannot comment on since it is currently ongoing.
Just thought you'd like to know.
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Date: 2009-03-02 01:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-02 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-02 01:53 am (UTC)For the first time, I'm kinda glad the Other Half is on the far side of the globe...
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Date: 2009-03-02 02:13 am (UTC)I sometimes wonder if the people who design those things [the sex toys, not beetle bits!] actually ever intend people to use them, or just to giggle over and buy them as gag-gifts for their more prudish friends?
I hope it's the latter.. because the idea of someone actually trying to imagine anyone using something like kinda makes my brain hurt!
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Date: 2009-03-02 01:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-02 03:05 am (UTC)"This conflict is played out viciously among fruit flies. Rather than growing old in each other’s arms, drosophila mate with multiple partners, none of whom stick around for a second date. And look at what they’ve come up with: male semen contains toxins that kill the sperm of other males. When a male fly mates with a female who has recently had sex with someone else, his spermicide goes to work, killing competitors’ sperm. That’s a great adaptation, but unfortunately the stuff is toxic to the female and gradually harms her health. This doesn’t bother the male at all. It increases his evolutionary fitness, and he’s never going to see her again.
William Rice, an evolutionary geneticist then at the University of California at Santa Cruz, did a wonderfully slick experiment in which he kept female fruit flies from evolving while letting the males compete against each other. After 40 generations, the evolutionary winners were males with the strongest toxic punch in their semen. Females who mated with them had a shorter life expectancy."
- http://discovermagazine.com/1999/may/war
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Date: 2009-03-02 03:20 am (UTC)um
wow.
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Date: 2009-03-02 03:28 am (UTC)If you REALLY want some better candidates next time you get shitfaced, poke me and I'll poke some of my ... more ... tolerant friends for tips and links.
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Date: 2009-03-02 03:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-02 04:49 am (UTC)-->Bear in mind that there are gene codes for natural armor--in mammals, no less!--as well.
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