The animal kingdom
Sex in the rest of the animal kingdom is weirder, older and more varied than anything our own species has come up with. It is also the fastest way to notice that almost nothing about human sex is unique -- including the parts people assume must be.
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The male seahorse is pregnant, in the full sense
Not carrying eggs — an actual placenta, and actual labour.
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Bonobos use sex the way other species use diplomacy
Food arrives, tension rises, and the tension is resolved sexually.
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One octopus detaches an arm and sends it swimming
It swam off so convincingly that science named it as a parasite.
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Dolphins were the case that settled an old argument
The question of whether animals feel pleasure had an anatomical answer.
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The female spotted hyena has a phallus
She urinates, mates and gives birth through the same organ.
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In turtles, the sand decides the sex
There are no sex chromosomes. There is a thermometer.Browse by shelf
A shop has two hundred of them. One of them is right for you.
Seven questions: who it is for, what sounds appealing, how quiet it has to be, what it may cost. Out comes one type — with what to look for, what it costs, and what nobody prints on the box.
- Sixteen types, from a bullet vibrator to a blindfold
- No brands, no shop, nothing for sale here
- Two minutes, and nothing is saved
Find out what you both want — without either of you saying it first.
You each answer twenty questions on your own, and neither of you ever sees the other’s answers. Only what you both said yes or maybe to comes back. A no and a maybe look identical from outside, so saying no costs nothing — which is what makes the answers honest.
- Six sets of twenty questions — three by depth, three by subject
- An evening you can actually plan, built from what you agreed on
- No account, no names, and it deletes itself after a few days
General information, not medical advice. Anything persistent or painful belongs with a doctor, who has heard it before.