Man That's a Big Futon
Aug. 12th, 2002 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strange_aeonsI've been thinking about orgasms. I mean, moreso than usual, and in a slightly different context.
There was a man born around, I believe, the turn of the last century, in Portugal, who had two penises. This gives some people a little trouble, so I'm going to put a bit of calming white space here in case anyone needs to digest for a while.
Okay, done?
This was probably the result of incomplete twin-separation -- he also had a spindly third leg with ten webbed toes, if it's any consolation. I may be misremembering at this point, but I think his genitalia operated independantly, which is to say that stimulation-to-orgasm of one had no effect on the other, and that there was no spillover of refractory period.¹
I think this the case with janitors.² Presuming a mostly human reproductive physiology³, a sort of global orgasm is going to be inconvenient in a janitor who's already been fertilized by a male but is copulating with him again to make sure it takes (it may be useful in a janitor who's already been fertilized and has found another male it likes better, but there are other ways of discharging unwanted genetic material). Female orgasm does have a biological purpose, though -- in an erect-walking species whose default mating position is front-to-front, semen tends to pool uselessly in the vagina, and later to run out; orgasmic contractions dip the cervix in this pool, transferring semen to the uterus where it can actually do some good -- so it doesn't work for janitors to just not come as a result of no-frills male-janitor intercourse.
This is why I should never write porn. That is perhaps the most unerotic paragraph ever penned on the subject of sex. I ponder the taboos potentially attached to interacting with the 'wrong' set of genitalia, and wander off to get something to eat.
¹ I apologize for this link. It was the first one Google gave me.
² Those of you who haven't been following along may find that reading the comments on this post will make this sentence a little less completely bizarre and inexplicable.
³ And I am. Because they're mine, mostly, and I can, so there. Actually, though they've obviously undergone a fair bit of natural selection, I think they're a created species. This raises some questions of how, and why the Darwin stuff, which questions are colliding in intriguing ways with all the interesting thoughts I'm pointedly not having in response to a post Charlie Stross wrote to rasfc a while back. Them's good reading, by the way.
There was a man born around, I believe, the turn of the last century, in Portugal, who had two penises. This gives some people a little trouble, so I'm going to put a bit of calming white space here in case anyone needs to digest for a while.
Okay, done?
This was probably the result of incomplete twin-separation -- he also had a spindly third leg with ten webbed toes, if it's any consolation. I may be misremembering at this point, but I think his genitalia operated independantly, which is to say that stimulation-to-orgasm of one had no effect on the other, and that there was no spillover of refractory period.¹
I think this the case with janitors.² Presuming a mostly human reproductive physiology³, a sort of global orgasm is going to be inconvenient in a janitor who's already been fertilized by a male but is copulating with him again to make sure it takes (it may be useful in a janitor who's already been fertilized and has found another male it likes better, but there are other ways of discharging unwanted genetic material). Female orgasm does have a biological purpose, though -- in an erect-walking species whose default mating position is front-to-front, semen tends to pool uselessly in the vagina, and later to run out; orgasmic contractions dip the cervix in this pool, transferring semen to the uterus where it can actually do some good -- so it doesn't work for janitors to just not come as a result of no-frills male-janitor intercourse.
This is why I should never write porn. That is perhaps the most unerotic paragraph ever penned on the subject of sex. I ponder the taboos potentially attached to interacting with the 'wrong' set of genitalia, and wander off to get something to eat.
¹ I apologize for this link. It was the first one Google gave me.
² Those of you who haven't been following along may find that reading the comments on this post will make this sentence a little less completely bizarre and inexplicable.
³ And I am. Because they're mine, mostly, and I can, so there. Actually, though they've obviously undergone a fair bit of natural selection, I think they're a created species. This raises some questions of how, and why the Darwin stuff, which questions are colliding in intriguing ways with all the interesting thoughts I'm pointedly not having in response to a post Charlie Stross wrote to rasfc a while back. Them's good reading, by the way.
no subject
Date: 2002-08-11 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-11 10:09 pm (UTC)Not all that surprisingly, when I skimmed the post in question while I was writing this entry, 'refractory metals' was the phrase that caught my eye too.