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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: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:57:14 GMT
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- In article <74489@apple.apple.COM> stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones) writes:
- >huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >
- >>Here are some numbers. The average duration of human copulation is about
- >>four minutes.
- >
- >Ninety seconds is a more commonly quoted figure.
-
- I've rechecked my source (Jared Diamond's _The Third Chimpanzee_), and I
- stand by the 4-minute figure.
-
- >>more distant cousin, the orangutan, manages about twenty minutes on average.
- >>(Orangs also prefer to copulate in the trees rather than on the ground.)
- >
- >Wow. If I were copulating in a tree, I think I'd want to hurry up.
-
- Orangutans are the third largest primate after gorillas and humans. In
- fact, adult males weigh about as much as human males, but the females are
- much smaller. (The orangs that you see in movies and non-documentary TV shows
- are juveniles.) Because of their size they move very slowly and deliberately
- through the trees. Also, except for mothers with youngsters, they're solitary
- for the most part, and about the only time adults of the opposite sex encounter
- one another is when the female is in estrus. For these reasons and because
- they have prehensile feet for gripping tree branches, orangutan couples tend
- to take their time.
-
- Also, the females have orgasms.
-
- >>Among mammals, though, the record-holder is some rodent at twelve hours!
- >
- >Even more impressive if you consider that as a percentage of the rodent's
- >life-span.
-
- Alas, there I was out of order. It's a marsupial "mouse."
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-