Worst Sex Ever (Bed Bugs)
This video by Isabella Rossellini shows the trauma of bed bug sex. Sri Lanka’s been talking about the horrors of rape, and Reddit’s had accounts from actual rapists. This is one example of how things could be worse. Bed bug males mate not by connecting genitals but by stabbing the female with their penis, inserting sperm via the bloodstream. This is called traumatic insemination. I’m not making a point here, it’s just weird.
Posted on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 in Nature, Science, Video.
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I won’t add too much commentary, but just read I guess. The youngest Rajapaksa, Rohitha (Chi Chi) has given an amazing interview to the 
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Any weirder than how humans do it?
If it’s any consolation, scorpion females sometimes eat the male after mating.
Just proof that no god created the universe. If I was god, I would’ve done a lot of optimization until I stopped this kind of nonsense from happening.
Like the black widow or many other type of arachnids. Who knows? Maybe we dont yet have the means of saying definitely whether it was actually painful, or whether the pain they felt was somehow pleasurable?
Your creation would be so boring! I’m not saying bad, just boring.
Obviously, if I created the universe, you won’t have a brain that is capable of being bored.
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Forget about arachnids. Elephants, when they grow old, lose all their teeth. They die of hunger when they’re old. Terrible world design. I could have done so much better if I was god.
Your 98% perfect world could only be a static machine with no boredom to stimulate innovation and change. If they had any brain, not even 2% would like it.
I’m 98% right only because I live in this crap universe. It’s not me who’s 2% wrong. It’s the universe. In my universe, I’ll be 100% right.
There’s something important though. Do you think it is boredom that cause people to innovate and change? That’s just stupid. Bored people go and get high. They don’t innovate.
Sometimes they do. I think the safety pin was invented by some guy playing with a paper clip out of boredom.
In your perfect universe there would be no necessity for invention, consequently no joy of discovery. How dull.
Say for the argument’s sake that it is boredom that causes innovation. But that is only in this universe. If I create a universe, where even the fundamental laws of physics are determined by me, innovation will happen whether there is boredom or not. Not just that. I’ll be the one who creates time. So I’ll control innovation so that no one screws up my perfect universe.
Dull. dull. dull. And too late. We’re already here. Time to top fantasizing.
And in my universe, there’d be no word like “dull”.
I think sharanga was flirting with Shammi! :D