animal-human sex

Plants are generally hermaphrodites, but this terminology is quickly complicated by variations in the degree of sexuality. As with animals, there are only two types of gametes. These are generally called male and female based on their relative sizes and motility. In flowering plants, flowers bear the gametes. In some cases, flowers may contain only one type of gamete while in others they may contain both. In other varieties of multicellular life (e.g. the fungi division, Basidiomycota) sexual characteristics can be much more complex, and may involve many more th ...

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Many contemporary artists deal with taboo images and ideas including: Matthew Barney Maurizio Catalan Damien Hirst Lennie Lee Joel-Peter Witkin Bill Viola and Pedro Almodóvar Luis Buñuel Derek Jarman Tom Green ...

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Sexual attractiveness in non-human animals depends on a wide variety of factors. Often, there is some element of the animal's body which exists for sexual attraction, like the bright plumage and crests of some species of birds. In many species, there are behaviours which appear to be sexual display. Some of these attributes seem to exist solely to demonstrate fitness and health, for example by demonstrating the ability to sustain an "expensive" feature with no other apparent survival function. Conversely, the receiving sex may be predisposed ...

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In humans, sex is conventionally perceived as a dichotomous state or identity for most biological and social purposes, such that a person can only be female or male. However, when the criteria which are generally used to define femaleness or maleness are examined more closely, it becomes apparent that the assignment or determination of 'sex' occurs at multiple levels. Environmental, biological, social, psychological and other factors are all believed to have some role in this process, and the complex intera ...

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The formation of new episodic memories requires the hippocampus. Without a hippocampus, one is able to form new procedural memories (such as playing the piano) but cannot remember the events during which they happened. See The hippocampus and memory. The prefrontal cortex (and in particular the left hemisphere) is also involved in the formation of new episodic memories (also known as episodic encoding). Patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex can learn new information, but tend to do so in a disordered fashion. For example, they ...

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Brass Eye aroused considerable controversy when it was first broadcast, primarily because prominent public figures were fooled into pledging onscreen support for fictional, and often plainly absurd, charities and causes. The second episode was called "Drugs", and is considered by many to be the most successful of the series. In the opening scene, a voiceover tells viewers that there are so many drugs on the streets of Britain, "not even the dealers know them all". An undercover reporter (Morris) asks a drug dealer in London for ...

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A large series of jokes of this kind goes along the following line. A listener asks a question, e.g., about the difference between communism and capitalism. The answer is usually in the lines of "in principle, yes", but the details of the response contradict the affirmative answer. This is Radio Yerevan. One of our listeners asked: "Does one get 10 years of prison for saying that Brezhnev is an idiot?" We're answering: "In principle yes, because that's a state secret." Q: Is it true that h ...

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Faber College, 1962. Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement are but the faintest blips on the horizon. A 1950s mentality prevails on campus, typified by the Omegas—the "nice boy" fraternity. At the other end of Fraternity Row, both literally and figuratively, stands the Delta House, a repository for every campus misfit: Eric "Otter" Stratton, the Playboy-style sex maniac (whose room is an uncannily pristine oasis within the sheer filth of the house); Donald "Boon" Schoenstein, Otter's best friend who is always deciding ...

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Episodic memory is thought of as being a "one-shot" learning mechanism. You only need one exposure to an episode to remember it. Semantic memory, on the other hand, can take into consideration multiple exposures to each referent - the semantic representation is updated on each exposure. Episodic memory can be thought of as a "map" that ties together items in semantic memory. For example, semantic memory will tell you what your dog looks and sounds like. All episodic memories concerning your dog will reference this single semantic representation of "dog" and, likewise, all ...

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In placental mammals, offspring are born as juveniles: complete animals with the sex organs present although non-functional. After several months or years, the sex organs develop further to maturity and the animal becomes sexually mature. Most female mammals are only fertile during certain periods and during those times, they are said to be "in heat". At this point, the animal is ready to mate. Individual male and female mammals meet and carry out copulation. For most mammals, males and ...

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List of on-screen clichés - Children. Children are usually as close to their cousins as they are to their siblings. Children invariably have embarrassing middle names. (Ex: Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer whose middle name is Lavelle) All children are constantly crossing their eyes and making faces at each other. They will have a hard time memorizing words, but if it's a swear word, they will say it out loud when angry Children following the main characters n ...

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In addition to eating and human vocalization, the human tongue has many secondary uses. These include certain forms of kissing known as "tongue kissing" or sometimes "french kissing" in which the tongue plays a primary role. Generally, use of the tongue (such as licking), or interaction between tongues, appears to be a common gesture of affection, not just in humans but throughout the animal kingdom, and particularly in mammals. The tongue is also has a distinct use in both male and female forms of oral sex, and is typically used to a ...

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Main articles: Demographics of sexual orientation and Kinsey Reports Some modern surveys report about 2%-6% of modern western populations as "bisexual", but there are still many methodological difficulties with regard to randomness and size of the sample population, and the accuracy of self-reports of such personal information. (The accuracy of these numbers is disputed.) Different studies also use different standards for bisexuality. Some studies ignore bisexual phenomena entirely, or separate it into same-sex and opposite-sex ...

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List of on-screen clichés - Biology. Changing something's DNA instantly changes the persons form, even before the cells would have had a chance to multiply. A mutation causes a living creature to grow in mass in seconds, despite the fact that they have not eaten any extra protein to allow this growth (The Incredible Hulk, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The human body contains almost infinite blood, which re ...

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Fritz is a trouble-making, anti-establishment, college-age figure whose adventures consisted of having sex with as many anthropomorphic female animals as possible, while staying one step ahead of the law. In one of his stories, Crumb describes Fritz as "a sophisticated, up-to-the-minute young feline college student who lives in a modern 'supercity' of millions of animals...yes, not unlike peop ...

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John Maynard Smith - Books. Maynard Smith, J. (1958). The Theory of Evolution. London, Penguin Books. ISBN 0140204334 1993 edn ISBN 0521451280 Maynard Smith, J. (1968) Mathematical Ideas in Biology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN Maynard Smith, J. (1972) On Evolution. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0852242239 Maynard Smith, J. (1974b) Models in Ecology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN Maynard Smith, J. (1978d) The E ...

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