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Gee, you post a few pictures of molluscan lust…

Category: Organisms
Posted on: March 23, 2009 8:41 PM, by PZ Myers

…and suddenly people everywhere are sending you images from their snail and slug porn collections. You are all just plain weird.

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Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | March 23, 2009 8:48 PM

damn exhibitionists, doing it on the front lawn instead of inside their homes...

Posted by: tsig | March 23, 2009 8:51 PM

Love: explain that evolution!!

Also how could male and female evolve simultaneously? Many generations of males would have died love-lorn waiting for the female to evolve so he could have sex. Think of it if eviloution is true generations suffered from COSMIC blue-balls.

Posted by: JD | March 23, 2009 8:52 PM

I hope they're married.

Posted by: Ichthyic | March 23, 2009 8:55 PM

generations suffered from COSMIC blue-balls.

generations, you say?

RAY COMFORT LIVES!!!!

Posted by: tsig | March 23, 2009 8:56 PM

" Jadehawk Author Profile Page | March 23, 2009 8:48 PM

damn exhibitionists, doing it on the front lawn instead of inside their homes..."

And without benifit of clergy. Before the fall all animals were sanctified now they slake their unholy lust in so many preverted ways I just get rigid with anger thenking about them and thinking and thinking...

Posted by: blueelm | March 23, 2009 8:57 PM

tsig: LMAO, literally. In class. That was beautiful.

Posted by: Evangelatheist | March 23, 2009 8:58 PM

@tsig #2
these definitely evolved male and female simultaneously. Land snails are hermaphrodites.

@JD #3
I don't know if it's legal for hermaphrodites to get married.

Posted by: tsig | March 23, 2009 9:07 PM

blueelm

Thanks It's scary how easy it is when you throw facts to the wind and just allow phrases to feed out into your fingertips.

Posted by: El Marko | March 23, 2009 9:14 PM

Seriously, if you're gonna post mollusk porn, make it cephalopods. They probably enjoy it more.

#10

Posted by: SciencePundit | March 23, 2009 9:16 PM

I guess this would be one of those rare situations where being told that you have a slimy penis is actually quite a compliment.

#11

Posted by: Hipstermama | March 23, 2009 9:18 PM

The people I work with think I am weird for having insect porn, can't wait to show them some of this!

#12

Posted by: kamaka | March 23, 2009 9:19 PM

Slimy, writhing, hermaphrodidic sex.

I fail to see the problem here.

#13

Posted by: Newfie | March 23, 2009 9:21 PM

You're welcome

#14

Posted by: kamaka | March 23, 2009 9:26 PM

The people I work with think I am weird for having insect porn

Ooooh, do share.

#15

Posted by: Ichthyic | March 23, 2009 9:31 PM

Entomophilia

yup, it's a real paraphilia alrighty.

#16

Posted by: NewEnglandBob | March 23, 2009 9:32 PM

Did anyone see the episode of Dirty Jobs about trawling the high seas off Maine's coast for slime eels?

Mike Rowe said he was swimming in eel snot.

#17

Posted by: PaulB | March 23, 2009 9:32 PM

That is soooooo hot. More please. Some erotic snail stories would be good too!

#18

Posted by: nightshadequeen | March 23, 2009 9:34 PM

I will admit I missed the "i" in the tag the first time.
"Organism"-->"Organsm"

Now I need to find something to get the coffee out of my keyboard....

#19

Posted by: DLC | March 23, 2009 9:39 PM

Snails doing naughty,dirty evil sex!
I bet it takes them all day.

#20

Posted by: ThirtyFiveUp | March 23, 2009 9:40 PM

Ichthyic #15

More information than I need. Or want.

#21

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM | March 23, 2009 10:00 PM

In

Out

In

Out

In

Out

#22

Posted by: Atheist Chaplain | March 23, 2009 10:31 PM

maybe its time to change the name of the blog to Phalluswrangler !!

#23

Posted by: Randy | March 23, 2009 10:33 PM

"I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. Couple of chickens doing a goat. Couple of pigs watching…"
--Dwight Schrute

#24

Posted by: Fernando Magyar | March 23, 2009 10:34 PM

NewEnglandBob @ 16

Mike Rowe said he was swimming in eel snot.

Despite ick factor, slime eel has sex appeal Bottom-feeder fish is foul-looking, but sold as an Asian aphrodisiac

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19336602/

And wasn't there a post a while back about hagfish slime making for a good egg-substitute? Nham, snot omelet aphrodisiac?

Maybe someone should also test it as a lubricant

#25

Posted by: jj | March 23, 2009 10:39 PM

SLUG LOVE ! HTTP//:bio.research.ucsc.edu/grad/weaver/Pages/project.html Go UCSC!!

#26

Posted by: jj | March 23, 2009 10:43 PM

damn smart phone, not so smartt
http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/grad/weaver/Pages/project.html

#27

Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | March 23, 2009 10:47 PM

The mucous trail that shows a snail
Has recently passed by
Will not grow stale before a male
Decides to go say hi.
At such a scale, the fine detail
The pheromones supply
Will never fail as they assail
The mollusk's roving eye
(to no avail, I'll moan and wail
I meant not to imply
The "eye" is hale--it may need braille,
It's metaphor, not lie!)
My verse is frail--let sense prevail;
Let no one here deny
A snail may nail a bit of tail,
And who'd complain? ... not I.

#28

Posted by: tresmal | March 23, 2009 10:49 PM

So the "M" in MILF stands for Mollusk?

#29

Posted by: Carlie | March 23, 2009 10:54 PM

You haven't seen hot invertebrate sex until you've seen Isabella Rossellini act out invertebrate sex. I am so not kidding.
She did a series of Sundance videos called "Green Porno" that interpret various insect mating rituals.

#30

Posted by: Darren Garrison | March 23, 2009 11:08 PM

I posted a link to a few shots in comment #19 in the first slug sex post, but here's a direct link to the two best images from the set:

http://s313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/slugs/?action=view¤t=slugses12.jpg

http://s313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/slugs/?action=view¤t=slugses14.jpg

#31

Posted by: Ichthyic | March 23, 2009 11:24 PM

oh, man, carlie, that is SUCH a keeper! Isabella Rosellini ACTING out insect sex???

Now I think I've seen it all.

#32

Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | March 23, 2009 11:34 PM

You haven't seen hot invertebrate sex until you've seen Isabella Rossellini act out invertebrate sex. I am so not kidding. She did a series of Sundance videos called "Green Porno" that interpret various insect mating rituals.

ok, that stuff rules supremely, hehe. definitely bookmarking it for "future reference"

#33

Posted by: eddie | March 23, 2009 11:42 PM

I find insect sex unappealing, what with Aliens and that mantis head-chewing thing. And to the slug thing all I could think of is "no tongues".
Now whale porn. On Blue Planet they described a penis as 'twice as long as a man'.

#34

Posted by: Ichthyic | March 23, 2009 11:45 PM

Now whale porn

now THAT'S whale porn.

muhahahhaha

I insist you all suffer the mightiest of earworms!

#35

Posted by: Mobius | March 23, 2009 11:58 PM

I am reminded of the hideous consequences of Penguin Lust in Bloom County.

#36

Posted by: justawriter | March 24, 2009 12:01 AM

Bad science writing alert, new "anthropod" discovered.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090319/sc_afp/scienceuscanadaswedenpaleontologydinosaur

#37

Posted by: Jadehawk, OM | March 24, 2009 12:07 AM

I clicked on that, Ichthyic you bastard! *runs to find ear-soap*

#38

Posted by: Darren Garrison | March 24, 2009 12:53 AM

Did somebody say whale porn?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIcrCZQkSlg

(The whale porn is in there.)

#39

Posted by: Older | March 24, 2009 1:42 AM

El Marko, if you had ever seen slugs mating, you would not doubt that they enjoy it immensely. It is gorgeous and elegant, and makes the way you do it look clumsy (unless I am mistaken as to your species).

#40

Posted by: Utakata | March 24, 2009 2:03 AM

This blog is taking a new bent on tentacle sex. :(

#41

Posted by: Jack | March 24, 2009 2:05 AM

That's hot! Shake that thang!

#42

Posted by: phildo | March 24, 2009 3:07 AM

SEX SEX SEX. That's all you sick preverted science types
can think of! There's more to life you know!

"God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all."

#43

Posted by: abb3w | March 24, 2009 3:17 AM

Plain weird? No, no, no. Exotic forms of weird.

Cue rousing muppet number of "The Internet is for Porn"....

#44

Posted by: Logicel | March 24, 2009 4:52 AM

Two cracked walnuts topped with a bit of almond cream?

A snail may nail a bit of tail,

Oh my, Cuttlefish such delicious vowel alliteration!

#45

Posted by: Carlie | March 24, 2009 5:46 AM

On Blue Planet they described a penis as 'twice as long as a man'.