Did sailors have sex with dugongs/manatees? (Siren/mermaid myth)

The Little Mermaid’s Little Sister
was also partly girl and cod
though in a way which those who kissed her
found odd.

…but which, well worth to mention,
though at first sight absurd,
I, with my fond intention,
preferred.

  • Piet Hein

There is nothing new under the sun, and that goes for human sexuality, too. Bedouin tribesmen have known for millennia that foreign objects lodged in the uterus of their camels would prevent conception, and no doubt they stuck other things in there, too. Hence the old joke about why camels are called ‘ships of the desert’. – Because they are full of Arab seamen.

Zombie or not…

“Porpoise Mouth” might be a more relevant search.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Grandma?

I posted this in a similar SD thread:

I have seen a photo of New Guinea natives queuing up to have sex with a dugong stranded on a beach.

See post #34 of this thread… :smiley:

Yes, sailors used to boink manatees.
But they called them…“cabin boys”.

“Penes”. Third declension.

That is what the ship’s boy is for, right?

Bob

Churchill wrote that the Royal Navy owed its dominance of the 19th century seas to discipline, and that the source of that discipline was “rum, buggery, and the lash.” And of course you have Cap’n Ahab crying out in ecstasy, “Oh Pip! I suck most wondrous philosophies from Thee!” Sadly, one’s shipmates seldom look so good as Judah Ben Hur, so I bet marine mammals often caught an old salt’s eye.