[thechat] he ain't heavy, he's my hampsterdance.
Judah McAuley
judah at wiredotter.com
Mon Sep 16 11:10:00 CDT 2002
Luther, Ron wrote:
> Hi Judah,
>
> Quite a few animals today still do. They're called snakes. The
> males have a 'hemipenis'. [Make a fist. Now extend your index and
> pointer fingers. Now bend the pointer finger at the first joint so
> it is 90 degrees to your index finger. It's kinda like that.]
I suppose that is like having a second penis. I just always thought of
it as a hemipenis, a penis split in half (hemi being half rather than
double).
> Gee - How long have I been waiting for an opening to bring that
> little fact up? ;-)
>
> Former Zoo Guy,
I'd love to work in a zoo. My wife and have always talked about
becoming cute-baby-animal-ologists. We still haven't come up with the
correct name for that profession though.
> RonL.
> (The females also have a structure we don't usually think of in plural
> terms. I've never heard it pronounced, so I'm guessing here, but I'd
> call it .... "clitorii". [Found in a science book on snakes I bought that
> was written by a collection of {somehow it figures} French scientists.])
Are you talking about the little prong thingies that extend out from the
cloaca (another great word)?
You should check out the book "How They Do It" by Robert A Wallace.
It's a compendium of the sexual reproduction mechanisms and habits of 47
species. And its very funny.
And as a final trivia bit on this thread, there is a name for the
unfortunate condition of a human with two penises, its called diphallic
terata. Maybe I'll make that an album name someday.
Judah
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