A species of fish has been newly discovered that wears its genitalia on its head:
How’s this for a head turner? A tiny new species of fish from Vietnam sports its genitalia on its noggin.
Phallostethus cuulong is only the 22nd known species of its family, Phallostethidae, all of which bear their copulatory organs just behind their mouths.
As with all Phallostethus—”penis chest” in Greek—species, the male uses its bony “priapium” to clasp a female while he inserts sperm into her urogenital opening, also located on the head, said Lynne Parenti, curator of fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Parenti remembers seeing another species of priapiumfish mate at a lab in Singapore. Attached at the head and together forming a v, the fish “looked like a little pair of scissors, darting around the tank together,” she said.
Wait a minute. I think I knew guys in college who were like that.
I knew plenty who thought that way.
Would I be the subject of deserved scorn to note the obvious? This species is a bunch of dickheads.
Oh, we probably knew the same people, Drew, being so near in age.
Well, Janis, all you are telling me is that you knew people who thought not with their heads, but with their proverbial Johnson’s.
Perhaps this discovery is simply affirmation of the ancient connection.
In college, I, of course, thought with my head…….until I didn’t.
It’s not just guys in college. I remember reading a year or two ago about guys in retirement homes who were always after the ladies, so to speak. I guess with Viagra there’s a lot more hanky-panky.
Andy, a few years ago it became a national story for a couple of weeks about a big outbreak of venereal disease (I still prefer the older term) up in The Villages, a massive set of retirement communities in Lake County, NW of Orlando. Turns out that being old and retired leaves one with a lot of time on one’s hand. Add the magic of the phallic pharmacopeia to the mix and — Viola! — you’ve got hordes of horny old people listening to Marvin Gaye and gettin’ their collective freak on.
” I remember reading a year or two ago about guys in retirement homes who were always after the ladies”
Andy,
You have that one right. One of my first jobs was as a nursing aid, @16 years old. The old men in there were beyond incorrigible. For a young, and very naive girl, it was an uncomfortable eye-opener.
Sort of off-topic, but engineers and nerds have become a lot sexier since all these damned electronic devices came out.