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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

its theorized that's why human penises are also shaped the way they are

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This implies that there's some sort of evolutionary advantage to getting sloppy seconds. I don't know how I feel about that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone loves a good underdog story.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Everyone loves a good raw dog story.

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so that's why it's such a turn on, it's evolutionary advantage!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No that's the gay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If being gay (not bi) is so obviously an evolutionary disadvantage, how does it exist in humans and animals in statistically significant numbers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Turns out there may be more to this evolution thing than 'first past the post'. Non-reproductive members of a species can help other members of the species to survive.
Essentially it's not about getting "my genes" into the next generation, it's really about getting the genes of "my species" into the next generation, and beyond.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780124201903000302

https://theconversation.com/homosexuality-may-have-evolved-for-social-not-sexual-reasons-128123

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That makes a lot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Because we like it and liking things is reason to live.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't matter how long you live if you have no offspring. It feels like, statistically, gay people really shouldn't exist. Yet here we are.

Hi, it's me, the strangely existing gay person!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Species survive not just as individuals, but as groups.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

We are animals, monogamy is not a part of humanity like it is in penguins.
Our penises reshaped over millenia of orgies just to get all the other guys cum out. We are sluts of the animal world, like rabbits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Well, do you think women consent was at thing back in the early days of homo sapiens?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Yes I do. Do I think every sex was consensual? No. Do I think at least 1% of women had at one point consented to sex? Yes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It implies that there were enough guys getting sloppy seconds for dick shape to give a reproductive advantage.

While it could have been from a lot of free love in the ancient past, I suspect it's more likely much darker than that and the evolution of cuckolds is intertwined.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Huh... This whole time I've just been using my tongue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They do be shaped the way that they are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ducks have a screw, cats have barbs, dogs have like, a stopper that blocks other humpers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Harpoon penis

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's some thought that this is also the reason for the shape of the human penis

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490400200105

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Which really makes you think, shouldn't longer-penised individuals have an reproductive advantage over short-penised people? Longer penises can scoop deeper in the couchhole to get out other people's jizz. Why hasn't the human race evolved such that every male had 20 cm (7.8 in) penises?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We kind of have. Human penises are waaaay bigger than those of other primate species, and many other mammals (relative to overall body size).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Poor, poor gorillas, they never stood a chance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gorillas consider large penises a sign of barbarism. When's the last time you heard of a gorilla killing someone?

A human?

Think about it. /s... Unless?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Longer penises can scoop deeper in the couchhole

VANCE!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The longer the penis, the larger the fraction of women who will find sex with that person painful, and at some point the reproductive advantage of scooping out others' semen will be nullified due to the fact that no woman wants to sleep with you. I think I read that four inches is the length that most women find comfortable, but I don't remember where I read it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure I read 8 as the average preferred length, but I'm sure we're both biased in what we read so I have no idea really. All I have is personal experience that tell me it's well above 4, but also everyone I've slept with has been generally aware of my size beforehand, so it's got a large self-selection bias.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Four? 😐 That's under average!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Iirc humans already have way bigger penises than other apes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Or make it up with more strokes, so longer intercourse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why hasn't humanity evolved such that every male had 20 cm (7.8 in) penises?

Oh dear, no one tell him he got the short end of the genes..

Joking, of course.

I would assume penises didn’t need to evolve to be that long on average since vaginas are not that deep on average? So there would only be so much depth to reach in the first place. Possibly girth would also affect it - having a long noodle dick might mean no matter how deep you go, the penis might not be wide enough to effectively “scoop” it out.

Again assuming, but after a certain length (bottoming out), width would become more important

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

couchhole

I love this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So does JD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is penis?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It is penis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/MmzJ-deqBtg?si=A8u8AiVaKliNodln

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Risky click of the day.

spoiler:It was a family guy clip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I was having such a good day too. Why would you do this to me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What's wrong? Did you want your lady dragonflies to be filled with someone else's jizz?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I learned about this from a book I really enjoyed called Nature's Nether Regions. The part about spiders was pretty weird as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Soo... They share jizz? I mean, what else would you do with a flying shovel penis?

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