my inappropriate sense of humour strikes again!

May 08, 2009 15:51

Linkage!

A very interesting article on Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, AKA the question that's been keeping you all awake at nights.

It is really interesting, seriously, at least if you have a minor interest in evolutionary biology. Also, hilarity:

Even the most well-endowed chimpanzee, the species that is our closest living relative, doesn’t come anywhere near this. Rather, even after correcting for overall mass and body size, their penises are about half the size of human penises in both length and circumference. I’m afraid that I’m a more reliable source on this than most. Having spent the first five years of my academic life studying great ape social cognition, I’ve seen more simian penises than I care to mention. I once spent a summer with a 450-pound silverback gorilla that was hung like a wasp (great guy, though) and baby-sat a lascivious young orangutan that liked to insert his penis in just about anything with a hole, which unfortunately one day included my ear.

Poor man.

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