ALL HAIL THE GREAT AND MIGHTY MAMMALIAN VAGINA!
I keep learning new things about vaginas. Us wiener science geeks have it made, I tell ya. We're gettin' ALL the cross-sectional diagrams of pussy and the molecular/paleontological history of muff. Somebody high five me!
Only mammals have vaginas, and not all of them do (sorry Mr Platypus!). Everybody else just gets a single orifice - a multipurpose thingy called a cloaca.
In non-therian mammals, all of these complicated pipes have one common destination, a single outlet to the external world: the cloaca. "Cloaca" is Latin for sewer, and it is appropriately named. The terminus of the large intestine is here, as well as the ends of the ureters from the kidneys and the ducts from the ovaries or testes. Everything gets dumped in to the cavity of the cloaca, making a nice stew of feces, urine, and sperm or eggs. Mmm-mmm.
Until I read this article I didn't know that. I mean, I knew of such a thing called a cloaca (because I have a pet bird), but I hadn't given it too much thought. Considering how awesome vaginas are, you'd think they'd be everywhere! But no. They're a relatively new invention and unfortunately for non-mammals (and monotremes), cool new inventions don't seem to travel back down the evolutionary bush.
Oh, and there is a comment someone posted regarding the article that I just have to share: "If the avian cloaca is both an excretory and reproductive organ, then doesn't that mean any time birds have sex, it's automatically sodomy? I'll be buggered - that penguin movie really was out to destroy Western civilization!"
Have a nice day, everyone, and don't forget to enjoy your mammalian vaginas!
UPDATE
It seems not everyone feels the same way I do about vaginas. (Insert feel + vaginas joke here.) A chain of grocery stores in the USA has lifted the latest issue of Seventeen (not the German porn mag) off its shelves. The reason why? There's an article that helps young women learn more about their vaginas, including a labelled drawing. Too many people complained about it being "inappropriate." See here.
I keep learning new things about vaginas. Us wiener science geeks have it made, I tell ya. We're gettin' ALL the cross-sectional diagrams of pussy and the molecular/paleontological history of muff. Somebody high five me!
Only mammals have vaginas, and not all of them do (sorry Mr Platypus!). Everybody else just gets a single orifice - a multipurpose thingy called a cloaca.
In non-therian mammals, all of these complicated pipes have one common destination, a single outlet to the external world: the cloaca. "Cloaca" is Latin for sewer, and it is appropriately named. The terminus of the large intestine is here, as well as the ends of the ureters from the kidneys and the ducts from the ovaries or testes. Everything gets dumped in to the cavity of the cloaca, making a nice stew of feces, urine, and sperm or eggs. Mmm-mmm.
Until I read this article I didn't know that. I mean, I knew of such a thing called a cloaca (because I have a pet bird), but I hadn't given it too much thought. Considering how awesome vaginas are, you'd think they'd be everywhere! But no. They're a relatively new invention and unfortunately for non-mammals (and monotremes), cool new inventions don't seem to travel back down the evolutionary bush.
Oh, and there is a comment someone posted regarding the article that I just have to share: "If the avian cloaca is both an excretory and reproductive organ, then doesn't that mean any time birds have sex, it's automatically sodomy? I'll be buggered - that penguin movie really was out to destroy Western civilization!"
Have a nice day, everyone, and don't forget to enjoy your mammalian vaginas!
UPDATE
It seems not everyone feels the same way I do about vaginas. (Insert feel + vaginas joke here.) A chain of grocery stores in the USA has lifted the latest issue of Seventeen (not the German porn mag) off its shelves. The reason why? There's an article that helps young women learn more about their vaginas, including a labelled drawing. Too many people complained about it being "inappropriate." See here.
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eddie:
Good thing for science. Otherwise we'd be all dumb 'n stuff....
solaris:
i like when i try to exaggerate but i actually say a low number. that also makes life way more fun. or else makes me look like an idiot.