How Slugs Make Babies

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.

I’m madly spreading the link across the net!

:smiley: 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.

So I told that slug, “Go fuck yourself, and on top of that, bite your dick off too!” Color me suprised when he did… :smiley:

Eh. We’d have just paired you up with Spit. :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

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.

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 “nudibranches.” Think of the chiiiiiildren…

I hope no one is defaming my alma mater’s mascot.

Kyla
UC Santa Cruz, '00

Bravo. Now go research earthworm sex, and your education will be complete!

WARNING: INVOLVES A “SLIME RING”

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”? :wink:

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.