Jan 19 2013

Anti-Caturday post

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by PZ Myers

Seals. Having sex.

Dang. It’s neither cute nor graceful, is it?

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The Mellow Monkey

19 January 2013 at 11:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That was roughly as awkward and floppy as I expected.
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Randomfactor

19 January 2013 at 11:35 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The moaning sounds familiar, though.
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janiceintoronto

19 January 2013 at 11:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Parthenogenesis obviously has its advantages.

No film crews…
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Glen Davidson

19 January 2013 at 12:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Love doesn’t really spring to mind.

Cat sex isn’t really much of an improvement, however, especially in the auditory realm.

Glen Davidson
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M, Supreme Anarch of the Queer Illuminati

19 January 2013 at 12:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

INVALID CONTENT SPECIFIED.

I’m starting to feel like I dodged a bullet there…
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John Horstman

19 January 2013 at 1:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m clearly missing a video or picture or something, and I do mean missing: seals screwing sounds hilarious. I don’t have the content error message like @5, just what looks like a post consisting only of:

Seals. Having sex.

Dang. It’s neither cute nor graceful, is it?
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John Horstman

19 January 2013 at 1:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I solved my problem: script-blocker blocking explore.org (video container/fetch script) and then ooyala.com (flash player/content script).
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RFW

19 January 2013 at 1:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Glen Davidson has it right: cats having sex are neither cute nor graceful. And for the female, it’s evidently painful as the barbs on the male’s penis stimulate her vaginal wall when he withdraws, triggering ovulation.

Somewhere on the web there’s a photo of two lions, taken just as the male has withdrawn; the female (like all cats, it seems) is turning around and giving him a nasty swat. Unfortunately, a search of Google images for “lions mating” doesn’t turn up this particular photo, but it shows lots of open mouths: one gathers lions, like house cats, make a lot of noise when doin’ the dirty.

Definitely a situation where sex is anti-romantic.
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Bruce Keeler

19 January 2013 at 1:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I love the way the adult seal next to them seems to be shielding the pup as if to say “Don’t look, don’t look, you’re not old enough!”
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Naked Bunny with a Whip

19 January 2013 at 1:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Watch a video of seals having sex.

Cool. One less item on my bucket list.
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Naked Bunny with a Whip

19 January 2013 at 1:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Or is that one fewer item….
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Gnumann+, Radfem shotgunner of inhuman concepts

19 January 2013 at 2:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

My only thought was: Why the heck are they not doing it in the water..?

(Actually, from what I’ve previously seen of seal sexuality I can hazard a guess, but I don’t really want the answer to be true -yup, that’s me antropomorpising)
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Martin

19 January 2013 at 3:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ron Jeremy jumps into my mind.
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paulburnett

19 January 2013 at 5:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Beach sand makes a great sexual lubricant…NOT!
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DLC

19 January 2013 at 5:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sex! On teh innertubes ? who’da thunkit.
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Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven

19 January 2013 at 8:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m not supposed to be turned on by this, am I? O.o
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Mike

19 January 2013 at 8:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I would ask who stole my home sex tapes but I had a trophy wife so it would look more like an elephant seal trying to hook up with a sea otter.
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Rob Grigjanis

19 January 2013 at 9:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Why is this video like American beer? It’s fucking close to water.
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Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven

20 January 2013 at 1:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Why is this video like American beer? It’s fucking close to water.

Narrower brush plz.

Several of MANY examples. >.>
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alexanderz

20 January 2013 at 11:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Lets not compare this to cats. Cats’ sex is definitely painful, but it looks like the females like it (except for the withdrawal, when they try to kill the male) – after copulation female cats often roll on their backs on the grass (a clear sign that they’re having fun).
Seals, on the other hand, are rapists. They even rape their young, something I’ve never seen a cat do.

Checkmate, seal-lovers – this one goes to the cats!
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chakolate

20 January 2013 at 2:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This would make a much better anti-Caturday post: octopodes rendered in cake:

http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/1/20/sunday-sweets-tasty-tentacles.html