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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: What do you Am men think about Am wome
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:46:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.180603.19352@b8.b8.ingr.com> larry@b8.b8.ingr.com (Larry Billings) writes:
- >In article <Bxvt4w.LC6@access.digex.com>, huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
-
- It seems that I was having a minor memory failure when I wrote what follows.
- (Major memory failures? I don't remember any.) Corrections for those with
- stopwatches appear below.
-
- >> Here are some numbers. The average duration of human copulation is about
- >> four minutes.
-
- This part I got right.
-
- >> This compares quite favorably to our close cousins, the
- >> chimpanzee and gorilla, who clock in at about one minute.
-
- The time for the gorilla is correct, but the chimpanzee clocks in at a mere
- seven seconds. The figure for the bonobo is fifteen seconds.
-
- >> However, our
- >> more distant cousin, the orangutan, manages about twenty minutes on average.
-
- It's fifteen minutes.
-
- >> (Orangs also prefer to copulate in the trees rather than on the ground.)
-
- When the female is willing. Some male orangs resort to rape, and that is
- performed on the ground. Female orangs rarely become pregnant from rape,
- though.
-
- >Thanks for the hint, I'll try doing it in the trees from now on.
-
- Orangutans have prehensile feet, giving them the equivalent of four hands.
- I suggest that you employ some type of safety harness.
-
- Also, I'd said that the record-holder among mammals was some rodent, but
- it's really a marsupial "mouse" (the duration was twelve hours). Marsupials
- are definitely not second-class mammals!
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-