Japanese researchers discover disposable penis surprise

[yanpa]

Sea slug's 'disposable penis' surprises

Sea slug that is able to detach, re-grow and then re-use its penis has surprised scientists.

Japanese researchers observed the bizarre mating behaviour in a species called Chromodoris reticulata, which is found in the Pacific Ocean.

They believe this is the first creature known that can repeatedly copulate with what they describe as a "disposable penis".

The study is published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters.

Male and female

The sex life of the sea slug is complicated even before detachable organs come into play.

Almost all of these creatures, which are also known as nudibranchs, are thought to be "simultaneous hermaphrodites". This means they have both male and female sexual organs and can use them both at the same time.

Bernard Picton, curator of marine invertebrates at the National Museums Northern Ireland, explained: "The genital apparatus is on the right hand side of the body. So two nudibranchs come together and one faces one way and one faces the other way, with the right hand side of their bodies touching.

"The penis from one fits into the female opening of the other one, and the penis from that one fits into the female opening of the first one, if you see what I mean.

"They are both donating sperm to the other one."

But the finding that one species has added another layer of complexity to copulation surprised the sea slug expert.

"I haven't seen anything like this before," he said.

obviously he hasn't been searching hard enough for J-porn

Sexual healing
The Japanese team observed sea slugs that they had collected from shallow coral reefs around Japan. They saw the animals mate 31 times.

The act took between a few seconds and a few minutes, after which the creatures would push away and shed their penises, leaving them on the floor of the tank.

However, the researchers were surprised to discover that just 24-hours later, the sea slugs had regenerated their male organs and were able to mate again.

Closer examination of the animals' anatomy revealed that the sea slugs had a large part of their penis coiled up in a spiral inside their bodies, which they would then use to replenish their missing part.

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[Taro Toporific]

...the genital apparatus is on the right hand side of the body. So two nudibranchs come together and one faces one way and one faces the other way, with the right hand side of their bodies touching.
The penis from one fits into the female opening of the other one, and the penis from that one fits into the female opening of the first one...continues...

I'm trying to visualize it but...

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[Russell]

You need an underwater camera...

[Samurai_Jerk]

A disposable penis would be awesome. There'd be no need for condoms on my next trip to Vietnam.

[Coligny]

...the genital apparatus is on the right hand side of the body. So two nudibranchs come together and one faces one way and one faces the other way, with the right hand side of their bodies touching.
The penis from one fits into the female opening of the other one, and the penis from that one fits into the female opening of the first one...continues...

I'm trying to visualize it but...

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having seen snails fucking 69 style in my youth...

trust me... it's better to use your imagination...

[J.A.F.O]

A disposable penis would be awesome. There'd be no need for condoms on my next trip to Vietnam.

Only Vietnam?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

A disposable penis would be awesome. There'd be no need for condoms on my next trip to Vietnam.

On every single occasion its needs have been met, immediately thereafter my penis has started working on how to dispose of me in one way or another....

[Taro Toporific]

The real reason the Pope is quitting - a disposable penis?
The Globe and Mail | Feb. 22, 2013
...after the Pope’s {resignation} announcement another story broke, almost as though he’d sought to get in front of it – a story I like to believe is more likely to explain his hasty retirement: A team of Japanese scientists has announced the discovery of a sea slug that has a disposable penis.
Sea slugs are hermaphrodites. As human knowledge grows, God’s occasional whimsicality with sex organs is something the church has had to confront. An animal with both sets raises questions for a church so particular about gender roles. And given that Pope Benedict XVI’s predecessor, John Paul II, took the position that animals have souls, the soul of a sea slug in a body possessed of two sets of sex organs might have been a worry to the pontiff.
Sea slugs mate with both sets of sex organs, concurrently. I imagine (reminding you that sin lies not in the desire, but only in acting upon that desire) that double-sex must be a pretty tempting proposition, one that could lead many a sea slug astray. Twice. And at the same time. Sea-slug Craigslist postings must be novella length. Questions abound: Does the involvement of four sex organs automatically make the most mundane Monday-night, post-“let’s-see-what’s-on-Netflix” sea-slug encounter an orgy?
I’m guessing that the church would sanction that, provided the sea slugs really concentrated on what went where, with no funny stuffremember, sea slugs live underwater, and are at the mercy of the currents. Two pious sea slugs could be lining up their organs just fine, by the book, and then suddenly a large tuna, say, could swim over them. The poor little things could get flipped around in the act of procreation and suddenly they’d be having a big, gay, tuna-induced orgy. One wave and the purest of sea-slug couples attempting to form a blessed union might inadvertently find him/herself and him/herself in an aquatic version of Satyricon.
I’d like to believe that while these things weighed heavily on him, like other popes before him, the Pope grappled with their theological implications, as was his lot, until news came of a sea slug that, post-coitus, drags his/her penis alongside him/herself for 20 minutes before casually discarding it and then growing another one within 24 hours – and that proved too much. Consider the moral issues a detachable penis raises: If one of God’s creatures uses a different penis every time he has sex, is he a virgin each time? Would any sea slug drawn into the service of the Lord have to stop being a priest for the 24 hours she didn’t have a penis?
All of this would be enough to throw any pontiff into spiritual crisis...m0aR...

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[Russell]

Hmm. There seems to be conflicting stories about the pontiff's resignation...

Resignation of Pope was 'linked to gay network' in the Vatican

La Repubblica claims that the cardinals described a number of 'factions' in their report, including one in which individuals were "united by sexual orientation".

The newspaper also alleges the dossier states that members of this group were blackmailed by laymen with whom they entertain relationships of a "worldly nature". Quoting an unnamed source the paper says "Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments."

The seventh commandment forbids theft, while the sixth forbids adultery - but it is also linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts.

LOL, they are all too human.

What pisses me off, though, is that they try to impose their "official morals" on the world, while violating them in private.

Douchebags...

[Coligny]

You forgot the good news... this time they were not fucking choir boyz...

maybe...

i hope...

what would you expect from a Nazipope anyway...