Fellatio By Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time
This is great:
Oral sex is widely used in human foreplay, but rarely documented in other animals. Fellatio has been recorded in bonobos Pan paniscus, but even then functions largely as play behaviour among juvenile males. The short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx exhibits resource defence polygyny and one sexually active male often roosts with groups of females in tents made from leaves. Female bats often lick their mate’s penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male’s penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina. Males never withdrew their penis when it was licked by the mating partner. A positive relationship exists between the length of time that the female licked the male’s penis during copulation and the duration of copulation. Furthermore, mating pairs spent significantly more time in copulation if the female licked her mate’s penis than if fellatio was absent. Males also show postcopulatory genital grooming after intromission. At present, we do not know why genital licking occurs, and we present four non-mutually exclusive hypotheses that may explain the function of fellatio in C. sphinx.
The data:
If you scroll down to the end, there’s a link to a video.
200 seconds? Marathon bats indeed.
Who has that kind of time?
I’ve got sammiches to make!
And old cookie factories to live in!
(that’s where aforementioned sammiches will be constructed and/or consumed…)
Sammiches to be made for you. Remember, this is a bat with many wives.
Well, yes, and no. Chances are good I’m not attracting many fellatio-oriented bat-wives simply by being taken care of all day, and granted, several 200 second sex sessions sound inviting, but…hell, that’s over THREE MINUTES. We did it too much, I’d need several naps.
1. My proteges at the student paper where I’m going to college got in trouble for pushing the boundaries with this article (and this “campus voice” that ran with it) as part of what was to be a weekly sex column. I sent ’em a link to the study with the message, “Now THIS is a scholarly blow-job article.”
2. I do enjoy skimming the writing of Bill Simmons, but I don’t think he translates to television very well, if these Five Good Minutes on PTI are any indication. I’m not sure how well his humor translate to his podcasts–I don’t usually enjoy them very much, but then I don’t generally listen to podcasts at all, so … hard to say.
BS lost any edge he might have had when he got married and had kids and Boston teams began winning. I genuinely enjoyed reading him at the beginning of the decade/century/millennium, but he’s morphed into Peter King. Fuck, he aspired to be fucking Peter King.
He aspired to be doing what to whose chicken?
Christ, what an aspiration whore
Yeah. The “I just went to vegas and it was AWESOME” stories were fun. The “I just called my buddy and talked about how we used to go to vegas” stories suck.
Also, I don’t like basketball.
this.
Well, on TV, he’s even more PK-ish than he is in print–the humor his lost and he seems even more dorky than Peter King, like a cross between King and John Clayton.
I still think he’s worth a skim, in part because (to nm) I like basketball. Not about to buy the book though.
It certainly seems to me like he knows something/has interesting things to say about basketball. I’m just not that target audience.
He seems very well informed about basketball. But, like you, I have no interest in the sport, save a little spark around March Madness time, which I think is loosely associated with the A’s. I remember casually watching the finals (the year Chris Webber called a timeout he didn’t have) on a portable television someone had on BART, on our way to see opening night.
Or, as right-thinking people remember it, the year Donald Williams couldn’t miss as he led the UNC Tar Heels to the national championship.
**, effective advocates.
Critical blogging error. Lieberman was never young.
Actually, the chief administrator doesn’t much like #85.
I’m going to go with “Holy fucking shit“
Yeah, that’s some corruption right there.
What #85 are you referring to for the JoePo link?
Ochocinco.
Okay, first off, I bought my first Chad Johnson jersey about five years ago, so tread lightly when discussing Esteban.
Secondly, having been VERY up-close-and-personal with the juvenile justice system in CA for many years (for those of you that don’t know, I spent about five years as case counselor at long-term treatment facility for juveniles in NorCal), the system, as far as I can tell, has always been on the precipice of this blatant corruption.
The kids in my caseload were almost always very much in the right place (it was an odd mixture of SA tx and behavior modification–based very closely upon Delancey Street, if anyone know the tx model there), but the area where it got funky/susceptible to corruption was the release date. It was always nebulous and VERY dependent upon the county in question (FWIW, both Alameda and SF Counties were pretty fair-minded about it). Sometimes we’d have the kid for six months and sometimes we’d have the kid for 18 months, and the game seemed to be headed toward trying to keep them longer.
There was two sides to this. The kid was almost always headed back to a very negative situation (as a tip, if, as a parent, one of your children ever end up in a place like this, your participation in all phases is almost always seen as a positive thing, and generally secures their release quicker), and the more separation he had from that environment, the better chance he had to succeed upon returning or striking out on his own. Conversely, the organization (my employers) had very questionable motives for keeping them longer, as did the probation officer and, in some cases, the county government (i.e. we bill at 6k a month, they charge taxpayer 8k).
Um, that’s prolly much more than any of you wanted to hear about the juvenile justice system. For the record, I LOVED the toughs from both San Francisco and Oakland, especially the Hispanic gang kids.
And my point, in connection to the article was that I see my experience as only a step or two away from giving the judges kickbacks/bribes, and would not be surprised to have found it to be true in my case as well.
I wonder if it’s still like that. My law firm (although only indirectly me) sued and won a case called L.H. v. Schwarzenegger which fixed problems with intake due process (which was nowhere near as bad for juvies as adults) but it only applies to parole violators (I think. I know a lot less about it than our other related cases).
My sense of the Juvie people is that they’re a ton more helpful/interested in their wards than the adult guys.
I didn’t know your case-counselor background. It’s a stretch to say this is related, but as I go through teacher training, I find myself marveling at all the similarities between school and prison. My idealized version of education has … less similarities.
NM: When I saw your link with the reference to #85, I thought it would be a reference to commenter #85. So I read the whole Jeter/Bellicheck/whomever-else-got-involved JoePo thread, and then I saw there were only 29 commenters. So I did a “find” for “85” and got nothing … and only just now did my “find” for “Chad” get me to your reference, which was (I think I skimmed past it last time without even noticing), I think, oblique enough.
I should say my idealized version had less similarities, past tense. Like my classroom management teacher says, I need to deal with the “is” and not traffic so much in the “ought.”
Technically, you should say your idealized version had fewer similarities.
I wanted to be as obscure as possible.
Isn’t “Fruit Bat Fellatio” a Captain Beefheart album?
According to the keys to the game or whatever it is, Blanton “has all the pitches.”
Remember how I used to flog Douthat sometimes? I think I’m done.
This is just not true:
Dede is right of center for a NY Republican. All signs pointed to her easily winning re-election. Now, Hoffmann could well lose. Republicans/Conservatives losing easy elections is not particularly likely to irritate liberals (or, at least, me). Indeed, I hope the Conservative party runs in every election in 2010. It’s about the only way for Democrats not to lose at least some seats.
She’s pro-choice, which in Douthat’s worldview makes her left-of-center, irrespective of her positions on any other issues.
Everyone has their own political scale/litmus test. If, like Douthat, you believe that abortion should in all instances everywhere be illegal and that women should never have been granted suffrage, then Scozzafava qualifies as left of center.
Ok, but even if that’s true his point is still stupid. I’m gleeful, not annoyed.
Might I suggest shifting your allegiance to Dreher?
For the record, two hours of sleep is better than no sleep. On a related note, something tells me my sleeping pattern will soon be normal.