Leopard slug sex is indeed hot

March 5, 2012 5:52 AM

Compared to some species, human sex is boring, as Roxy Drew shows in this comic. NSFW, unless you work with kinky giraffes.
posted by MartinWisse (24 comments total)

There's an entire book on this subject and it's fantastic.
posted by saturday_morning at 6:08 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

That leopard slug video is sticky amazing.
posted by nickrussell at 6:22 AM on March 5, 2012 [2 favorites]

Twice the fun
posted by Seiten Taisei at 6:25 AM on March 5, 2012

Previously in Metafilter Projects.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:37 AM on March 5, 2012

There's another entire book on the subject (the bi and gay bits, mostly) and it's fantastic, too.
posted by mediareport at 6:44 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

Totally agree with Saturday.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 6:52 AM on March 5, 2012

Kinky giraffes
posted by infini at 6:55 AM on March 5, 2012

Needs more Isabella Rossellini!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 6:59 AM on March 5, 2012 [4 favorites]

Why do I feel oddly aroused?
posted by BlueScreen at 7:00 AM on March 5, 2012

NSFW, unless you work with kinky giraffes.

Okay, taglines are over. You win.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 7:07 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

1) I actually left out the first step of giraffe courtship– the male smacks the female on the bottom to get her to urinate.

Surely there must have been a way to work this in!
posted by eugenen at 7:11 AM on March 5, 2012

How the male angler fish gets completely screwed
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:14 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

Herbert Wendt's The Sex Life of Animals is a great read, if you can find a used copy.

Oh look – here's an available copy (although the "TOP EDGES ARE STAINED YELLOW")
posted by Kabanos at 7:49 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

TOP EDGES ARE STAINED YELLOW

Ewww. Giraffe porn.
posted by bonehead at 7:58 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

It seems roxydrew is completelyscrewed too.
posted by hat_eater at 8:03 AM on March 5, 2012

The link was supposed to go to downforeveryone...
posted by hat_eater at 8:08 AM on March 5, 2012

Yeah, not aroused by drinking piss, or having sex through the hands, having black friends impregnate my wife, or hanging upside down on a slime rope.
posted by CrazyJoel at 8:29 AM on March 5, 2012

Freak.
posted by mediareport at 8:52 AM on March 5, 2012 [2 favorites]

You guys must be doing it wrong. All those cartoons were more boring than sex. (really, the split gill fungi just touch each other? bo-ring.)

NSFW, unless you work with kinky giraffes.

I wish, but the link is very SWF, in case anyone is wondering.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:17 AM on March 5, 2012

They seem like fun guys.
posted by ShutterBun at 9:36 AM on March 5, 2012 [1 favorite]

Regarding leopard slugs, they left out the best part.
posted by idiopath at 10:15 AM on March 5, 2012 [5 favorites]

So "Eat a bag of dicks" is one of the nicest things you can say to a leopard slug.
posted by arto at 10:59 AM on March 5, 2012 [2 favorites]

Microcosmos is a pretty cool documentary featuring hot snail action
posted by palidor at 11:24 PM on March 5, 2012

This week's New Yorker has an article by Jonah Lehrer discussing the puzzle of altruism in nature. He explains that vampire bats must feed almost constantly, as they can starve to death in just 60 hours. Then he says this:

"If a vampire bat fails to find a victim during the night, it will begin licking under the wings and on the lips of a chosen colony member. The animals then lock mouths, and the successful hunter starts vomiting warm blood. If such sharing did not take place, scientists estimate that more than eighty percent of adult vampire bats would die of starvation every year."

Metafilter: Vomiting warm blood into the mouths of its weakest members.
posted by Paul Slade at 9:05 AM on March 6, 2012