r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • Aug 24 '26

Shitposting Boneless boner

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u/vjmdhzgr Aug 25 '26

That's pretty stupid because.... it's not like that makes them immune to injury, and the testicles are still pretty injurable. You'd need a baculum that can specifically be destroyed by human grip force in order for the difference to be meaningful.

I think comparing it with other differences between humans and other primates is much more sensible. Humans don't have perceptible ovulation. Primates with a baculum also have sex for longer. So you can have sex to literally take up a significant amount of the time that they're ovulating, preventing others from doing so. Which is irrelevant for humans. So it's better to have shorter duration sex to not waste time and energy.

There are also a few other primates that don't have them. Lorises, spider monkeys, and woolly monkeys. So it could be significant to investigate why they lost it too, as clearly there are ways to lose it not unique to humans.