Interesting
Sex Facts:
Ø According to Playboy, more Americans lose their virginity in
June than any other month.
Ø According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
Ø A whale's penis is called a dork.
Ø A capon is a castrated rooster.
Ø Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all
the same sex.
Ø The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at
one time.
Ø The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a
single day.
Ø A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
Ø A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
Ø Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. A female
can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year: one pair of rats has
the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
Ø Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leather back sea
turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
Ø In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to
have sex without a permit.
Ø A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million
young.
Ø Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
Ø A female dog, her mate and her puppies can potentially produce
12,288 dogs in five years.
Ø The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
Ø In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to have
sex on the city's airport property.
Ø In certain species of seals, like the elephant seal, males may
be several times larger than females because larger males can better defeat their
rivals in territorial fights and so acquire larger harems.
Ø Squids are a large, diverse group of marine cephalopods. They
begin mating with a circling nuptial dance, revolving around across a `spawning
bed' (200 metres, in diameter). At daybreak, they begin having sex and continue
all day long --they only take a break so the female can drive down and deposit
eggs. When she returns to the circle, the two go at it again. As twilight
falls, the pair goes offshore to eat and rest. At the first sign of sunlight,
they return to their spot and do it all over again.
Ø Penguins in general prefer to be `married', but they suffer long
separations due to their migratory habits. When reunited, a pair will stand
breast to breast, heads thrown back, singing loudly, with outstretched flippers
trembling. Two weeks after a pair is formed, their union is consummated. The
male makes his intentions known by laying his head across his partner's
stomach. They go on a long trek to find privacy, but the actual process of
intercourse takes only three minutes. Neither penguin will mate again that
year. The male Adele penguin must select his mate from a colony of more than a
million, and he indicates his choice by rolling a stone at the female's feet.
Stones are scarce at mating time because many are needed to build walls around
nests. It becomes commonplace for penguins to steal them from one another. If
she accepts this gift, they stand belly to belly and sing a mating song.
Ø There is a common joke: "How do porcupines do it?"
"Very carefully." But in reality, the truth is more bizarre than
dangerous. Females are only receptive for a few hours a year, so they go off
their food, and stick close by the males and mope. Meanwhile the male becomes
aggressive with other males, and begins a period of carefully sniffing every
place the female of his choice urinates, smelling her all over. This is a
tremendous aphrodisiac. While she is sulking by his side, he begins to `sing'.
When he is ready to make love, the female runs away if she's not ready. If she
is in the mood, they both rear up and face each other, belly-to-belly. Then,
males spray their ladies with a tremendous stream of urine, soaking their loved
one from head to foot - the stream can shoot as far as 7 feet. It is advised
never to stand close to a cage that contains courting porcupines.
Ø The female gastric-brooding frogs are a genus, Rheobatrachus, of
frogs from East Australia. The curiosity with these frogs is their unique
parental care: following external fertilization by the male, the female would
take the eggs into its mouth and swallow them. It is not clear, however,
whether the females swallowed the tadpoles or the eggs, as it was never
observed prior to their extinction. The last captive specimen died in 1984.
Ø Red-sided Garter snakes are small and poisonous, and live in
Canada and the North western United States, and they prefer orgies. Their
highly unusual mating takes place during an enormous orgy. Twenty-five thousand
snakes slither together in a large den, eager to copulate. In that pile, one
female may have as many as 100 males vying for her. These `nesting balls' grow
as large as two feet high. Now and then a female is crushed under the heavy
mound - and the males are so randy that they continue to copulate, becoming the
only necrophiliac snakes!
Ø Hippos have their own form of aromatherapy. Hippos attract mates
by marking territory, urinating and defecating at the same time. Then, an
enamored hippo will twirl its tail like a propeller to spread this delicious
slop in every direction. This attracts lovers, and a pair will begin foreplay,
which consists of playing by splashing around in the water before settling down
to business.
Ø Anglerfishes are bony fishes. Some of them have a unique mating
method: Since individuals are rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is
a problem, especially at a time when both individuals are ready to spawn. When
a male angler fish hatches, it is equipped with extremely well developed
olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. They have no digestive
system, and thus are unable to feed independently. They must find a female
anglerfish, and quickly, or else they will die. When he finds a female, he
bites into her flank, and releases an enzyme which digests the skin of his
mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood vessel level. The male
then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads that release sperm in
response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This
is an extreme example of sexual dimorphism. However, it ensures that when the
female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.
Ø The female mite known as Histiostoma murchiei creates her own
husband from scratch. She lays eggs that turn into adults without needing to be
fertilized. The mother then copulates with her sons within three to four days
of laying the eggs, after which the sons die rather quickly.
Ø Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in
tropical fish stores. (But of course!)
Ø In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines
with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only
"in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for on the premises."
Ø The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation (but
which head?).
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