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elleng

(131,275 posts) Mon Dec 12, 2022, 02:43 AM Dec 2022

Yale Researchers Reveal Secrets of Duck Sex: It's All Screwed Up

Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely spiraled males.

https://news.yale.edu/2009/12/23/yale-researchers-reveal-secrets-duck-sex-it-s-all-screwed?

((Read below for 'screwy' details!))

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Yale Researchers Reveal Secrets of Duck Sex: It's All Screwed Up (Original Post) elleng Dec 2022 OP

I predict that within about 90 minutes Otto_Harper Dec 2022 #1

Assuming a lot about DU's influence, as article published @ Yale December 23, 2009. elleng Dec 2022 #2

Otto_Harper

(512 posts)

1. I predict that within about 90 minutes

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 02:51 AM

Dec 2022

this very article is going to be misunderstood, misquoted and misused by the Reich Wing to support their contention that rape is not possible, and impregnation from such a thing never happens.

elleng

(131,275 posts)

2. Assuming a lot about DU's influence, as article published @ Yale December 23, 2009.

Reply to Otto_Harper (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 02:56 AM

Dec 2022

Other authors on the paper are Christopher J. Clark and Richard O. Prum, both from Yale. The study was funded by Yale University.

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