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Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Leigha - Mar 16, 2019 #metoo even exists in the insect world. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129185-female-dragonflies-fake-sudden-death-to-avoid-male-advances/ RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - C C - Mar 16, 2019 Nice that the tactic still works in the dragonfly world, or bugs yet have a degree of sanity. Thanks to the pseudonecrophilia trend, it's instead what some men would want from a potential date in the "progressively kinky" human world these days. ### RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Zinjanthropos - Mar 16, 2019 I guess ‘I have a headache’ just doesn’t cut it. RE: Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances - Leigha - Mar 16, 2019 (Mar 16, 2019 06:21 AM)C C Wrote: Nice that the tactic still works in the dragonfly world, or bugs yet have a degree of sanity. Thanks to the pseudonecrophilia trend, it's instead what some men would want from a potential date in the "progressively kinky" human world these days. Good points. It's interesting that other female species sometimes go through sexual angst when dealing with the males of their kind. I've always assumed mating was a seasonal thing, void of anything other than a mechanical type of ''transaction.'' |