Saturday, January 10, 2009

Bizarre Squid Sex

Used to be that National Geographic titillated white bourgeois males (and their pubescent offspring) with photos of bare-breasted "native" women (all in the interests of science, don't you know). Now that that is neither politically acceptable nor necessary (there's real porn all over the internet, and even tv has gotten pretty racy), what can you write about in order to pique readers' interest?

Animal sex, of course (sex among animals, that is):

The latest electronic newslettter of the venerable organization contains an article with the alluring title, "Bizarre Squid Sex Techniques Revealed":
New insights into the animals' intimate encounters include species that cut holes into their partners for sex, squid that swap genders, and males that deploy flesh-burrowing sperm.
(full article)

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