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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A little light reading for you this morning

It can taste, smell and sing. It can be a corkscrew, a crowbar or a hypodermic needle. It can stretch up to nine times your body length (if you’re a barnacle); be a detachable tentacle covered in suckers (if you’re an argonaut octopus); or even see, using light-sensing cells that guide it smoothly to its destination (if you’re a Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly). Or, it can be a limp, fleshy tube, hardly worth writing home about, if you’re a human. 

It is the penis, as you’ll know if you’ve read Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis, biologist and journalist Emily Willingham’s recent exploration of phallic diversity across the animal kingdom.
-WiscoDave

5 comments:

  1. Just another quack trying to bring down the Patriarchy...They aren't even subtle about it anymore...

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  2. Read the article's headline, decided, "Nope. Already reached feminist propaganda quota this year."

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  3. "Or, it can be a limp, fleshy tube, hardly worth writing home about"

    Guess my ex-wife wrote this article. Sigh.

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