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snail sex

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Snail sex. No, this is not about some weird sexual slow-breathing palaver for humans. It’s about sex, snail style. Snails, as in molluscs. Slimy, icky little molluscs ... ew ... but I digress.

The common garden snail, Helia aspersa (native to Europe and also found in California and South America), is a hermaphrodite, meaning that it can assume either a male or female role in reproduction as required. (Yes, of course this story gets better).

Garden snails court from between 15 minutes to six hours by slowly circling each other, touching tentacles, and biting each others lips and genitalia. They punctuate their mating ritual by shooting their partners with a calcified ‘love dart’ produced by the blood engorgement of a special organ housing the ‘dart’.

When the partner touches the ‘darter's’ genitalia, a 'dart' is fired. Now, as snails can detect light and dark, but are otherwise ‘blind’, it is a real case of hit and ms. (pardon my pun). In fact, the majority of these ‘darts’ are consumed (eaten) by the ‘female’ of the union.

Biologists have proven that a 'signal' carried only on some darts prevents the mate from digesting them. The female reproductive tract in snails is hostile to sperm by design, to make it difficult for ‘weak’ sperm to survive, so only the strongest ‘darts’, with their powerful chemical beacon, will survive undigested and fertilise the ‘female’.

Unless the ‘female’ gets a ‘signal’ from the dart, she will digest 99.98 percent of the ‘males’ sperm, leaving fertilisation from ‘poor quality’ sperm a near impossibility.

Wow. Do these snails have genetic survival nailed or what ?

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I have cooked since I was 8 years old. I even taught my wife to cook, as she did not learn such domestic things as a child.

waaaah. my husband can't boil water. i'm SO envious of 'mrs gideon' and 'mrs baker' !

It would be hilarious if you got referrals for "garlic boogers" on this thread....lol

not as funny as the ones you're going to get for the boar thing, gideon. i cannot wait ! hehe

My husband does/is all of those things!! - minus restaurant supply stores - he haunts gourmet food markets, delis and the farmers market.

another lucky woman !. trina, i think is wonderful !!

this is a gross and funny thread Mig -- and I can't help but be reminded of Pretty Woman "Slippery little suckers"

i love that scene

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You go, girl! Sorry that you're being spammed, but it's always funny when it's someone else...

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Yeah, but do they really enjoy it?

Are drinks involved at all?

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Yeah, but do they really enjoy it?

Are drinks involved at all?

mason, i have heard that up to 50% of female snails fake orgasm hehe

You go, girl! Sorry that you're being spammed, but it's always funny when it's someone else...

hehe chip, i know it won't make any difference, and i don't usually speak that way in comments, but i was so frustrated !. i don't even want to read my comments today as i'm sure almost none of them are genuine. but thanks for making me laugh again. i agree it's funny if it's someone else, and i'm sure it will stop soon. the forums do look kinda funny, though. as if i wrote 20 things in one day or something !

thanks you guys

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