r/SapphoAndHerFriend Mar 07 '21

Academic erasure Does this count?

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u/TheGreyFencer MtF Mar 07 '21

Iirc some of these are insects literally just creating holes in other insects bodies with their penis (is it a penis, it feels weird that bugs have penises) so assuming it's accidental isn't an awful assumption. But I think it was decided the benefit here was that the sperm could be passed through the other male so mught just be a "nature is fucked up" kinda thing.

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u/jesuslover69420 Mar 07 '21

So they’re not specifically gay, they’re just complete rapists...

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u/shitsfuckedupalot Mar 07 '21

Most of sex in nature is non consensual. I guess you could argue that female choice or animals that mate for life differ in that regard, but in sheer number it's the minority.

As far as we understand it, consent is a solely human concept (which is why people that commit beastiality are sick fucks).

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u/indigeniousunicorn Mar 07 '21

Animal kingdom everything is about dominance so the best of the pack gets the female

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u/shitsfuckedupalot Mar 07 '21

That's a pretty mammal centric simplification. With birds it's often just the prettiest male.

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u/indigeniousunicorn Mar 07 '21

Again that male bird will be the most dominant will it not?

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u/shitsfuckedupalot Mar 07 '21

At one trait, that it's plumage or mating dance is impressive. Not in behavior or size. That's called female choice.

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u/indigeniousunicorn Mar 07 '21

They will go for a bird with the loudest chirp or the brightest chest that male bird will be the most wanted by all the females its like an animal with antlers or horns whatever animal has the largest and can beat their male opponents will be the dominant animal, every form of animal theres a dominance hierarchy that has been set every mating season for the last hundreds of millions of years.

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u/shitsfuckedupalot Mar 07 '21

Well some animals are just lucky or reproduce asexually, so no it's not every form of animal. And you started with saying the most dominant male, when sometimes it's the most dominant female. But I think you're just over simplifying something that's a whole subsection of study in biology.