Too much Serious, talking about racism in politics and such. I felt like a Marine Biology post.
Since I’d just returned from an Anime Conference, the discussion of tentacle sex came up.
Of course the Japanese are interested in something more disturbing the Marine Biologist felt like sharing:
Sex in cephalopods is done through the male’s Hectocotylus which is a special tentacle used for copulation, and is essentially analogous to the mammalian penis.
Males generally form a new hectocotylus in each new season….During copulation, the hectocotylus breaks off from the male. The funnel-mantle locking apparatus on the hectocotylus keeps it lodged in the pallial cavity of the female.
Yep, the Male breaks his off inside the female! Cephalopods know how to party!
Hell who needs a backbone when you have a detachable penis?
Just so you know, I was really scared to click on your blog with that title. But I always appreciate random.
Just a little bit of fear makes it better, doesn’t it?
I don’t know if “better” is the right word… I’m gonna go with “more interesting.”
thanks for new nightmares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still not as weird as bee sex. The male endophallus is 1/3 the size of his body, and to deploy it, he actually uses his hemolymph like hydraulic fluid.
That’s right– every bee drone dies of a heart attack during sex.
If its any consolation, sex is pretty much ALL the drones do. The entire race is ran by the females, the drones are simply testicles with wings.
They get kicked out before the first freeze, too. Poor clones, never get treated well… heh.
lol, great quotables.