The World's Most Terrifying Penises, Part 5: The Leopard Slug

[dave_littler]

Let us turn our attention, dear readers, from a topic of somewhat gross sexual inequality to one which is a trifle more egalitarian in nature. From the depths of the ocean we now turn to the pacific northwest and my own home of British Columbia. Home to a wide array of distinctive flora and fauna, few of them are as notably bizarre to those born

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[ashbet]

The church bell/rose thing SLAYS me.

My poor husband had to pry me away from our trashcan once, as I was entrancedly watching slugs mate (hanging from a cord of slime, but no visible phalli as of that moment) . . . he was deeply disturbed that I found it all so INTERESTING.

Heh.

-- A ;)

[dave_littler]

I happened to see it in person once, some years ago.
In fact, apparently it was on 19th Aug, 2005. My goodness, but I've been keeping this journal for a while now.

http://dave-littler.livejournal.com/21149.html

[drhoz]

As I recall, the banana slug is up your way too. Ariolimax columbianus & A. dolichyphallus. dolichyphallus translates as giant penis. Which the other slug then bites off as soon as they've finished ejaculating, if it gets stuck.

[dave_littler]

You are correct!

The first time I ever came to British Columbia, some fourteen years ago, my father took me out to Vancouver Island, where we took a tour of a park which was in large part constituted of a marsh land which had a series of wooden brides and walk-ways criss-crossing it. It was whilst I walked across one that I saw a Bannana Slug for the first time, and was positively thunder-struck by the site of it. Back in Ontario where I grew up, the only slugs you'd ever see were little slate-grey things which could fit onto a grown man's thumnail. To see one of these nine-inch monstrosities really brought home just how far from home I was. It was at that moment that I began to take a keen interest in British Columbian wildlife.

[drhoz]

isn't the state animal , or city animal for seattle, or something up that way, a slug?

[kitsunetorn]

I believe I made a post a year or so back, fascinated by this beautiful thing I'd found on YouTube. They're like a blacklight-reactive windchime or some such.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVi4Z6CjZk Here it is.

[dave_littler]

Oh, yes. Quite familliar with this one; from BBC's "Life in the Undergrowth". I actually have a copy of the whole documentary, and am currently working on - and I don't know if I'll be able to get this done to my satisfaction or not - a video version of this entry for YouTube, using that very footage.

[dave_littler]

Update! Check out my most recent post for the culmination of this matter!

[hentaikid]

Congratulations, I was completely unaware of these boyos and their genital gymnastics. This deserves a plug from my 5000 user yahoogroup*

* Disclaimer: while the membership is technically up to 5000 it's likely only a fraction are still paying attention.

[dave_littler]

I know how that goes. While I can see that there's over a hundred people who have friended me here, I can see that there's at least twenty that I know no longer use LJ to any meaningful extent.

Nevertheless, I'm glad to have finally introduced you to something novel and new to you. I still have one more already written which I suspect will also be so.

[nerdfury]

One may, should one be so inclined, observe the practice of sluggy fucking on Youtube.

Narrated by the greatest observer of animals of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgPAQTJLQs

[dave_littler]

As said to Kitsunetorn above...

"Oh, yes. Quite familliar with this one; from BBC's "Life in the Undergrowth". I actually have a copy of the whole documentary, and am currently working on - and I don't know if I'll be able to get this done to my satisfaction or not - a video version of this entry for YouTube, using that very footage."

Nevertheless, thanks for the effort at the heads up.

[dave_littler]

Update! Check out my most recent post for the culmination of this matter!