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I did find it disturbing as well at first but reading the rest of the article cleared things up. It's a lot less brutal than it sounds. The male strips "old ski
by elektrontamer 3y ago
I did find it disturbing as well at first but reading the rest of the article cleared things up. It's a lot less brutal than it sounds. The male strips "old skin", just before they're ready to molt. So he's not really damaging the female. Which makes sense since harming the female only reduces his chances of reproduction.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoYeah, the description changes as it goes on from "rips her skin off" to "probably helps accelerate the molting process in a surprisingly gentle fashion, then removes the molted skin" at which point it is, in fact, kind of like "Here, honey, let me unzip that hard to reach back zipper on that ball gown and get you out of that." Historically, women often required help to get undressed from the get ups they were expected to wear. Much less so these days.