Sextras: Peculiar sex facts on our animal kingdom | Student Life

Sextras: Peculiar sex facts on our animal kingdom | Student Life

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did you know that bonobo monkeys--the closest relative to humans--french kiss and have oral sex? at left you see two female bonobos hot and heavy into each other.

did you know that researchers use porn to inspire panda bears to have sex?

did you know that male orca whales can have penises up to eight feet long?

did you know that some female spiders can store their partners sperm to fertilize eggs for up to two years?

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for even more about the polymorphous perversity of the animal queendom, click here.

in an ideal world

times square as it might be in an alternative universe--more like it was--sex everywhere--less like it was--sex reduced to spectacle, to vicarious enjoyment, to the purient and representational. i want to see that big cock being sucked on the subway car next to me, or in the subway restroom, or in the showers or steam room of my gym--the way things used to be. i'd even settle for it on a billboard.

i moved to nyc in the mid-90s, when times square was just beginning to be killed off by giuliani and his corporate titans. the place had a pulse, a vibe. the prostitutes on 8th avenue used to proposition me as i'd walk by at 1 or 2 or 3 in the morning, returning from my carousing. i'd say: "babes, if you don't know a gay guy when you see one, you're in the wrong profession." 

this used to be a city where sex wasn't completely privatized and forced into the bedroom or locked up behind seedy doors. new york was an adult space. it's fun to fantasize what the world would look like if the binary that imprisons sex in the private and runs it out of the public space would fall apart. why is it okay to eat in public but not to masturbate or have sex? they are both fulfilling human drives.



europeans think nothing of seeing naked breasts in public. what if we thought nothing of seeing a hard cock in public? ...being sucked? ...fucking? woof! would people stop to look as they do in some of these pics? or would they look away bored, or even walk on by, as they do in other pics here? perhaps both. perhaps it'd depend on who was "doing it." one thing's for sure: the world would be a whole lot more fun and interesting.

porn: good for what ailes society

porn inspires strong opinions in people.  some believe that it degrades women.  others say that it contributes to social disorder and encourages people to commit sex crimes.  the more extreme even believe that porn should be illegal.  

on the other side of the debate are those who argue that porn involves fantasy and masturbation and can decrease sexual violence.  there are feminists who argue that porn can empower women (and gay men, this blog argues) by freeing them from the shackles of a restrictive society.  

here is "the scientist" weighing in on the matter:

Over the years, many scientists have investigated the link between pornography (considered legal under the First Amendment in the United States unless judged “obscene”) and sex crimes and attitudes towards women. And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.

according to the article, few studies have been able to establish any link between porn and antisocial behavior.  none has found a causal relationship.  nor has any study revealed a link between porn and misogynist attitudes.  on the contrary, research seems to indicate that as porn becomes increasingly available, the rate of sexual violence actually goes down.  men exposed to x-rated movies treat women with more respect, not less.  one study focused on prison rapists revealed that those who rape were more likely to have been punished for looking at porn and that strict, repressive religious upbringing correlates positively with sex offenses.

i think a problematic effect of porn unmentioned here could be people sitting at home beating off in front of their computers rather than getting out--or inviting others over--to have an active social/sexual life.  porn can contribute to a shame-prone and private relationship with ones stack of glossy mags or ones computer.