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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More horrifying than fish? Sir I certainly doubt so.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's not where your sex hole is? It is now.

I don't need two pedipalps for mating; I'll snap one off so I can move better.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I see your arachnid mutilation sex and raise it with my "your gonads? Now MY gonads" anglerfish "sex".

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There is a species of slug (Limax maximus) that fuck by sword fighting each other using their barbed slug cocks, all while hanging from a singular strand of mucus where death below awaits them. Often after fucking, one of them chews the dick off the other in order to get unstuck because either one or both penises have succeeded in stabbing the other to inject their semen.

Many species of mantis and arachnids (Dolomedes tenebrosus) have the enormous females eat the males alive while they are still copulating.

There is also a species of

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is also a species of

We are all waiting

🐞?, 🐛?

or maybe

🦗?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

Sounds like he was a mantis and was posting while copulating.