This Male Spider Might Be A More Considerate Lover Than Yours

Spiders: They’re kinkier than you’d expect. The Darwin’s bark spider, a Madagascar arachnid known for weaving enormous webs, engages in male-on-female oral sex, according to a newly published study by Slovenian scientists. "Oral sexual contact seems to be an obligate sexual behavior in this species as all males did it before, in between, and after copulations, even up to 100 times," researcher Matjaz Gregoric of the Jovan Hadzi Institute of Biology said in a news release.  Yup, that's what you're seeing below. (In case you were wondering, the female of this spider species is much larger than the male.) The Slovenian researchers, who observed a group of Darwin's bark spiders in a lab over a two-week period, discovered that the critters have a “rich sexual repertoire,” according to a paper published Friday in the journal Scientific Reports. That repertoire includes “sexual cannibalism,” in which some females consumed the males after breeding, and “post-mating emasculation,” meaning that the majority of males -- presumably the ones that survived -- chewed off a portion of their own sex organs within 24 hours of sex. But all that sexual violence didn't surprise the researchers, who referred to such behavior in their paper as predictable. What really got them excited were the revelations about spider oral sex. They wrote that the male spiders “invariably” performed some sort of sexu...
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