Here's a blog post on the French naturalist Jean Painlevé which I can't read, because it's in French, of all things, but I can look at the pictures…and hey, those Frenchmen do like their innuendos and salacious slipperiness.
I think that may be the raciest video I've ever posted here…whew.
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