‘Round About Sex: Dinosaur Sex

There are all sorts of ways to approach sex. Being a sex educator I tend to take the most direct route (which, ironically, doesn’t always get me there the fastest). But I learn just as much from people who get to sex from a completely different angle.

With over 750 Guides, About.com is a great place to find people talking about sex from diverse and often unexpected perspectives. In this irregular series I’m going to point to my favorite examples of sex on About.com.

This week’s post is all about dinosaur sex. Bob Strauss, About.com’s Guide to Dinosaurs opens our eyes to how little we really know about how dinosaurs mated (and of course how oblivious we are to whether or not they did other things which we’d call sex). Reading his piece I learned stuff like dinosaurs could have been wicked gender benders for all we know, and genitals, despite their somewhat elevated status among live humans, don’t endure nearly as well as other parts of our bodies. This makes me wonder if, once we have easily accessible technology that can do everything our genitals can, might we discover more versatile parts of our body to focus on when we have sex for pleasure.

Why not add some pre-history to your sex ed.

Bob Strauss: Dinosaur Sex - How Dinosaurs Mated and Reproduced

Previously 'Round About Sex: Soft Core Austim Awareness

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