Whoa.

[fierceawakening]

And people say kinky humans are sadistic.

The courtship rituals of the spider Harpactea sadistica start innocently enough, with a dance and a hug. The male spider taps the female gently with his front legs and embraces her. But from that point onwards, things for the female go rapidly downhill. The male bites her and she becomes passive, allowing

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[dashingdeviant]

Wow. Between the mating habits of invertebrates and the life cycles of parasitic/parasitoid ones, they're really, really fascinating, and I get more interested the more I read (and understand why a couple of my friends geek out so much about bugs).

Umm, I mean, I blame Patriarchy for traumatic insemination! We must bring second wave radical feminism to the H. sadistica females!

[fierceawakening]

I know, right. RISE UP SISTREN.

[dashingdeviant]

Follow the example of your sisters the honeybees!

[fierceawakening]

hahahahahahah remember the wasps and bees post? BAHAHAHHAHA

http://ajkenn-rgclub.com/SDChronB log2dot3/2008/03/19/a-classic-cloudburst-from-stormy-the-bees-ants-and-wasps-post/

[slanderouspanic]

You can penetrate my guts and fill me full of your hot, sticky seed any time you want, Trin.

[ext_101344]

Spiders practice the sickest kinks ever - I mean, they do F/m cannibalism as well!

Is it incredibly wrong of me that I now envisage being turned on by a fantasy (or horror movie) of a scientist accidentally enlarging a H. sadistica spider that then takes out its sexual frustration on her/him?

[miz_evolution]

exactly, as the former owner of a large female tarantula, let's just say...those chicks are bad dates, and if the boy doesn't run when the deed is done, it ain't pretty.