# How Slugs Make Babies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192 "2003-05-29T04:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rumraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rumraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rumraisin)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/21 "2003-05-30T09:58:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Peg \* > \*\*I actually saw a picture of 2 snails in the act, with the super extendo slugpenis. It was… words fail to describe the ookie feeling. \*\* I can top that. I saw the actual act. I couldn’t figure out what that huge thing in between them was until I read this thread. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/22 "2003-05-30T14:33:52Z")
I’m madly spreading the link across the net! ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/23 "2003-06-01T16:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jlzania \* > \*\*I’m madly spreading the link across the net! \*\* 😃 Which one? And **super extendo slugpenis** has just the right alliteration, don’t you think? **Goo** , that is really amazing that you’ve witnessed the live, in-the-flesh mating for yourself. There’s nothing around here that could rival that. Consider me jealous. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/24 "2003-06-01T16:58:14Z")
So I told that slug, “Go fuck yourself, and on top of that, bite your dick off too!” Color me suprised when he did… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/25 "2003-06-02T17:46:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Goo \* > \*\*Lucky I haven’t posted in the “spit or swallow” thread, isn’t it 😉 \*\* Eh. We’d have just paired you up with **Spit**. 😛 But, personally, I find the concept of watching a slug ooze down the side of a soda can I was drinking out of, recently, more disturbing than their sex habits. (If you really want disturbing sex habits, look into those of mosquitoes.) The chewing off of their penii is pretty nasty, but I assume it’s relatively painless. Nature tends to take care of those kinds of details. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/26 "2003-06-02T23:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > \*\*But, personally, I find the concept of watching a slug ooze down the side of a soda can I was drinking out of, recently, more disturbing than their sex habits. \*\* Yeah, my friend was a bit…_startled_ by the appearance of a slimy little creature winding its way around the top of his can. “Dude, that thing’s been in my can!” is the approximate wording of his exclamation, IIRC. He was more traumatized, however, when he nearly crushed it to death with his shoe. Our little “Buddy” survived the experience, and we set him free in my front yard later that night. I’m sure that he’s having a delightful time procreating with the hundreds of other slugs that make their home in my yard. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/27 "2003-06-03T00:39:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Goo \* > \*\*Click here for [hot](http://zubi.merseine.nu/student/broschi/Pictures/Zubi/Weichtiere/Nudibranchs/HypselodorisPaar.jpg) [nudibranch](http://zubi.merseine.nu/student/broschi/Pictures/Zubi/Weichtiere/Nudibranchs/Nembrotha-kub.jpg) [loving,](http://www.grrldive.com/nudibranchs.html) 😃 \*\* I thought there was a board policy against this sort of thing. I mean, there could be young nudibranches reading this. As if they haven’t been corrupted enough being called “ **nudi** branches.” Think of the chiiiiiildren… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/28 "2003-06-03T01:28:17Z")
I hope no one is defaming my alma mater’s mascot. Kyla UC Santa Cruz, '00 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/29 "2003-06-03T06:56:30Z")
Bravo. Now go research earthworm sex, and your education will be complete! WARNING: INVOLVES A “SLIME RING” ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192/30 "2003-06-03T11:17:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Searching For Truth \* > \*\*Yeah, my friend was a bit…_startled_ by the appearance of a slimy little creature winding its way around the top of his can. “Dude, that thing’s been in my can!” is the approximate wording of his exclamation, IIRC. He was more traumatized, however, when he nearly crushed it to death with his shoe. Our little “Buddy” survived the experience, and we set him free in my front yard later that night. I’m sure that he’s having a delightful time procreating with the hundreds of other slugs that make their home in my yard. \*\* Yeah, that’s the advantage of being boneless. Makes you very difficult to crush. Though, I’m not sure why anyone would want to set one free in their yard. Much as I love nature (and I find nudibranchs fascinating, too), I have no fondness for slugs, at all. Wretched slimy little garden despoilers! What you need is a couple of Box turtles and a herd of toads. Clean those slimebags out of there. Oh, and how dark _was_ it, that your friend mistook you for a “dude”? 😉 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*Bravo. Now go research earthworm sex, and your education will be complete! > > WARNING: INVOLVES A “SLIME RING” \*\* Not until she also reads up on snail reproduction. The ones that shoot harpoons into each other (they’re also hermaphrodites), and then “reel each other in”, are pretty fascinating, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-slugs-make-babies/178192.md?page=1)