In between the scores of emails I receive each day at work, much like everyone else I guess, I get sent some some jokes from friends. Well today I got one that said that human beings and dolphins are the only two animals that have sex without the need to procreate and moreover that pigs, it would appear, have a 30 minute orgasm. In between laughing, I got to thinking if that was indeed true.....who the hell, which scientist/ student/ researcher would be motivated enough to find that out and how would it have been verified anyway? In any event, those damned lucky pigs! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's not as great as it sounds. After fifteen minutes, it would start to get boring ... or at least, a little repetitive. Besides, what if somebody knocked on the door? What if the phone rang? "Helloo- oo oohh ohhh ohhh!!!!" Kadark
I'd rather be a ladybird. They have sex for 8/9 hours a day, orgasming several times for over an hour each time. That's more than some people get in a lifetime!
....and AF, you'd know that how? LOL!!! Well, they may have to re-name that energetic insect Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ladybird porn of course! Although I take everyone else's word for it that it lasts so long, the 30 second previews plenty for me.
Herring sperm, porcine orgasm ... all in a day's work? There was a comedy bit in the '80s, and I think it was by Wayne Cotter, that went something like, And the drug, it apparently comes from herring sperm. Now, come on, what were there a bunch of scientists sitting around going, "Maybe if we got the DNA of the virus, we could try a recombinant ... No? Didn't work? Okay. Well, what if we tried to make a weakened form of the virus that ... no? Vaccine's out. Hmm. I know, has anyone tried whacking off a herring?" And you just know that somewhere in the back of the room was a grad assistant going, "Damn it. That's going to be my job. I should have listened to my mother and gone to law school." To the other, there was that great scene in Clerks with the attractive woman who manually masturbated large animals for the purpose of artificial insemination. Between that and the goings-on of farm country, I'm sure someone has figured out the duration of a porcine orgasm. To the other, can you imagine what the grant proposal would have looked like if there was federal money involved?
Um, I'm not sure if bugs orgasm or not. Certainly not in any way we're familiar with. And most of that 8 to 9 hours of sex that insects have is actually mate guarding, to make sure the male's sperm is used, and not a rivals. So they're really isn't that much sex- no thrusting. Just a quick deposition of sperm that lasts a few seconds at most.
It is NOT the orgasm, but the copulation. Sounds like lots of work for nothing: "..in Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. In amidst discussing such interesting reproductive behavior such as "mutual grooming of genitals," "male nuzzling of the sides and vulva of the female" and "Males tend to salivate excessively" it notes that, "There are multiple mounts before intromission, and copulation sessions may last from 15 to 30 minutes. Adults will copulate several times per day." It also mentions that in most species "males associate with females only during estrus."; quotes from: Powell, D. M. (2004). Pigs (Suidae). In Grizmek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 2nd ed., Huchins, M. et al Eds. (Vol. 15, pp. 275-290). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. -ken again, 10/14/05"
Dolphins and people, also bonobos and other chimps at a minimum. Probably quite a few other animals as well - porcupines, IIRC, for one.
