# Dolphin Rape **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388 "2008-03-14T19:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388/1 "2008-03-14T19:15:40Z")
No, not humans raping dolphins. I’m talking about dolphins raping humans. Is it true that it happens? Are dolphins sex-crazed geniuses who rescue humans only to get in our pants? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388/2 "2008-03-14T20:40:34Z")
What are you defining as “rape”, here? Dolphins will indulge in sex play with each other, and I know from experience\* that dolphins will do the same toward humans. (“sex play” here mainly being bumping or rubbing up against other swimmers with erect penes.) I was told that this sort of sex play toward humans is more common with hermit dolphins or dolphins raised in captivity. But, AFAIK, there are not roving pods of dolphins looking to give surfers a good rogering, or seeking in vain for human blowholes, or whatever. - one of those “swim with the dolphin” experiences, specifically. dolphins, BTW, are quite _big_. and suddenly sharing your waterspace with a big dolphin’s big wedding tackle is quite startling. and a good party story. but “oh no, flipper!” never actually rubbed up against any of us. I think he just sort of wanted us to know it was _there_, and went back to swimming about and vocalizing after waving it around at us. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388/3 "2008-03-14T20:44:07Z")
How, uh… how big are we talking, here, **Lightray**? Pack of Tums? Ballpark Franks (they plump when you cook 'em)? Forearm? Pool noodle? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388/4 "2008-03-14T20:44:47Z")
[QUOTE=Alex\_Dubinsky] No, not humans raping dolphins. I’m talking about dolphins raping humans. Is it true that it happens? Are dolphins sex-crazed geniuses who rescue humans only to get in our pants? [/QUOTE] Yes, male dolphin groups do occasionnally gang up and corral exhausted females for sex, but I think the term "rape: involves a level of intentionality and judgement that makes it somewhat inapplicable as a term for non-human mating. Re dolphin - human “rape” I think the mechanics for penetration would be somewhat complex with an unwilling human woman. There have been instances of men playing with and masturbating dolphins in open water, but I don’t think they tried sodomy as dolphins are a bit big endowment-wise for human anuses & vaginas. > [@](#): > > In a Newcastle-upon-Tyne crown court, Mr. Alan Cooper was accused of `outraging public decency.'' As the Times of London reported it, the prosecution accused Mr. Cooper of `committing a lewd, obscene, and disgusting act on the 12-foot dolphin called Freddie as they frolicked for 20 minutes off the harbor mouth at Amble, Northumberland.‘’ Freddie has become somewhat of a tourist attraction and according to the prosecution, ``a boatload of onlookers watched `disgusted’ as Mr. Cooper, wearing a blue and yellow wet suit, masturbated the half-ton mammal as it floated on its back.‘’ Mr. Cooper, the Times helpfully adds, is unmarried. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphin-rape/441388/5 "2008-03-14T20:48:03Z")
Well, it’s been almost twenty years ago by now… and none of us ever got a clear view of Freed Willy… but I’d guesstimate between “baby’s arm” and “adult’s forearm” size. Presumably an expert will be along to give us typical dimensions. (gad. I think I’ve actually been in more SDMB threads on dolphin penes than in threads on motor oil, and I _make_ motor oils…)