# Dragonfly wieners! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160 "2011-10-19T17:53:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/1 "2011-10-19T17:53:40Z")
The _NY Times_ science section yesterday had a \*fascinating \*article about dragonfly wangs: > **[It’s Complicated: Dragonfly Love Comes Calling (Published 2011)](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/science/18dragonfly.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=science)** > > Dragonflies have dizzyingly complicated and varied reproductive organs, and figuring out how they fit together is the goal of Michael L. May, a Rutgers entomologist. \*Look \*at those photos on page two! Makes you want to hang around dragonfly bars with a lotus blossom behind one ear. “The lateral lobes . . . are nice and long and spread really widely . . . And the inflatable parts are large and have little hairs on them. You can see it’s a complex organ . . . Likewise the puffy, bristly structure at the end of the penis known as the median lobe . . . .The smooth hood behind the median lobe, and the thumblike, stubbled anterior lobe? Functions unknown. Ditto the skinny, hornlike cornu." They are a lot smaller than elephant equipment, but festive complexity is more important than brute size! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/2 "2011-10-19T18:04:39Z")
Let me be the first to say: _ **eeek** _! It’s got a built-in _speculum_! That right there is probably the most anti-sexy thing you could possibly add to a wang. Although I must say, it’s a great article that can use the words “hard-boiled the genitalia”. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/3 "2011-10-19T21:52:02Z")
Great article! I’ve read similar things in Science about male fruit flies pleasure giving behaviors, and cockroach penises (IIRC “They unfold like complicated Swiss army knives”) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/4 "2011-10-19T23:09:54Z")
I wonder how you would even \*begin \*to circumcise a Jewish dragonfly . . . ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/5 "2011-10-20T00:35:32Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I wonder how you would even \*begin \*to circumcise a Jewish dragonfly . . . Oye. As always, very carefully. I WANT the Jewish guy smiley face back! ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/6 "2011-10-20T01:13:07Z")
The thread title is a thing of beauty **Eve** , as is the… erm… you know… _those_. Just in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/7 "2011-10-20T01:36:14Z")
> **[Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis?](https://www.straightdope.com/21341237/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis)** There’s something about wangs and the Straight Dope. The above link is to the very first article from the Dope that I ever read. Not about dragonflies, but still… ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/8 "2011-10-20T06:15:25Z")
Well, fuck me…but not with _that_ thing and its fallopian tube brushes. It looks like an insect all on its own. I’m sure “Say hello to my little friend!” can be heard, in dragonfly-speak. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/9 "2011-10-20T16:58:09Z")
> [@linked article](#): > > The mating process is incompatible with vivisection. Well I should hope so, but that thing looks like it could be used for vivisection! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/10 "2011-10-20T22:06:26Z")
I wonder if the phrase “hung like a dragonfly” will catch on (or ensue). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/11 "2011-10-20T22:53:08Z")
It looks like a Robert Mapplethorpe photo (surprisingly, safe for work): [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1933/Plate\_Orchid](http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1933/Plate_Orchid) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/12 "2011-10-21T00:20:31Z")
I think I saw one of those once in an adult bookstore. You had to put batteries in it, though… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/13 "2011-10-21T03:04:51Z")
Dragonfly females get off easy. Some girl beetles have [torture phalluses to put up with](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/spiky-beetle-genitals/photo2.html): > [@](#): > > Among known seed beetle species, C. maculatus (above, the tip of its phallus) has the longest and spiniest male genitalia, which resemble “medieval torture instruments,” one researcher says. > > The harmful sexual organs “literally injure females internally in their copulatory duct,” said Göran Arnqvist, an evolutionary biologist at Sweden’s Uppsala University. “They’re pretty mean.” And we’re now [using it as a weapon of war](http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/bug-powder-causes-ma.html): > [@](#): > > Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some “down there” armor that absorbs the punishing blows of the bedbug’s love-spear, but males lack this protection. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging The CIA once thought about doing [something somewhat similar.](http://www.oddee.com/item_91684.aspx) Now all we need is a spray that makes humans attractive to male bedbugs and we’ll be set. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/14 "2011-10-21T12:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Male bedbugs will schtup anything And that’s why they call them bedbugs! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/15 "2011-10-21T19:35:27Z")
I’ve heard that the tiny hairs on a male cat’s penis _face the wrong way_!(From a female’s point of view) So even a female in heat shouldn’t have to put up with a Tom dickin’ hairy. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/16 "2011-10-21T21:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=Article] His present project depends on obtaining fresh specimens because once a dragonfly has been preserved, its genitals cannot be inflated. [/QUOTE] And the jokes just write themselves. ETA: > [@Baker](#): > > I’ve heard that the tiny hairs on a male cat’s penis _face the wrong way_!(From a female’s point of view) > > So even a female in heat shouldn’t have to put up with a Tom dickin’ hairy. Spend much time at Callahan’s? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonfly-wieners/600160/17 "2011-10-22T00:41:05Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > And the jokes just write themselves. > > ETA:Spend much time at Callahan’s? 😉 Well, before the place was nuked I did spend time there, but I’d heard it elsewhere first!😃 I only wish I could have beat the Doc just once on Tall Tales night.