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Sure, I said fairly distinctive rather than unique. It's interesting that monogamy and mostly-consensual sex are mostly found in some birds (not you ducks), ra
by samatman 5y ago
Sure, I said fairly distinctive rather than unique.
It's interesting that monogamy and mostly-consensual sex are mostly found in some birds (not you ducks), rather than our closest relatives. There are a lot of mammalian paradigms for sex, for placental mammals in our weight class there's rather a lot of intramale competition, and estrus; the female being willing to be mounted by whatever male happens to win the fight is pretty much orthogonal to consent as we humans understand it.
It seems like a pedantic objection given that both the parent and myself were talking about insects, where the concept makes very little sense.
- js2 5y agoFair enough. I read “fairly distinctive” as “virtually unique”. Mantis are an insect with a mating ritual, right? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347287800246 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
- samatman 5y ago> The courtship displays of the male and female may play the role of reducing intraspecific aggression during courtship and thus reducing the likelihood of cannibalism. Whew! I think this also has relatively little to do with consent as humans understand it!