And don't we want them to enjoy themselves? ARE they enjoying it? Or is it something they just do, without, erm, thinking about it?
And don't we want them to enjoy themselves? ARE they enjoying it? Or is it something they just do, without, erm, thinking about it?
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
You mean a bit like "Lie back and think of England!"
I'm told that they don't feel pleasure. Apparently, it's just dolphins and primates that do.Originally Posted by qimissung
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Aren't we the lucky ones?Now see, if there was a God you'd think he'd see to it that all living creatures got to enjoy it. (Not sayin' I don't believe, just sayin')
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
If the Buddhists are right I'm hoping I get reborn as a dolphin or chimp. That's weird. I always assumed sexual pleasure was universal across the animal kingdom.Aren't we the lucky ones?
There are certain kinds of moths that reproduce exclusively through rape, the males use paralytic spores to "seduce" the females.
Edit: We don't actually understand much about sexual pleasure in other animals. We know that many primates and dolphins use sex and masturbation for stress release and social bonding. So far those are the only other animals that use sex for reasons other than reproduction that we're sure of.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Haha, well golly, how romantic. At least he doesn't bite her head off afterwards like some insects. Bugs are so weird.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
...I thought we did it for stress relief and social bonding..pleasure is stress relieving.
Apparently bed bugs reproduce by the male penetrating the female's abdomen and ejaculating into her hemolymph. They certainly have developed a number of very interesting reproductive strategies.
A lot of stick insects are exclusively parthonogenetic, they give birth to little female clones of themselves.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Eugh. That sounds familiar, I think that might have been one of the ones mentioned on your weird-yet-cool "how bugs have sex" performance art videos. My favorite was the earth worm, when I was a kid I used to play with that wrinkly skin-piece of theirs.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
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