Nature (@deliberatelyburied)

While you are correct in your point it is still giving to much ground to his argument.

Even if it is unnatural, who cares. Consent makes humanity happier and more stable on all fronts. If it isn't natural it is a social technology and we use those to improve our lives every day.

Apart from being an asshole, this guy doesn't understand how this stuff works at all.

Paying rent, having a job are all unnatural too. Pretty sure, the dude is doing those too.

It is also super natural for some creatures to eat it's partners after fertilizing their eggs. Just a heads up. 👍

He might have a point with social mammals. But pedophilia, canibalism, child murder (and so on) are also not uncommon among social mammals. Don't think it would be a great idea to allow all of that.

Next time perhaps tell him of the very natural mating habits of the anglerfish. We could dig up numerous examples to challenge his comic book version of nature.

"Natural" would be your town raiding his town and stabbing everyone so they can use the land to grow crops on and then themselves dying 5 years later of an infected toe because antibiotics don't exist before everyone who didn't die of stabbing dies of hunger because crops died that year. How about we aim for civilized instead. Also that guy is definitely a rapist

Introduce him to the mating habits of hyenas and watch him run away screaming.

And tell him there is a plethora of documentaries about the birds of paradise that entirely relies on female birds giving consent. There is a reason why birds vary widely by feather plumage because that is a huge factor in why the female gives consent in most species of birds. Female Eagles will withhold from mating and make the male bird retrieve her food to prove he can help raise young.

Some would think about ducks when it comes to rape but even then female ducks evolved the cork screw vagina that indeed circumvents the effectiveness of rape. Even then the female bird decides on consent to conceive as the outcome.

So birds evolved past humans on our archaic ideas of rape for conceiving. Bro can go back to picking his nose and eating it as far as the advise he’s bestowing to people.

From the point of view of a mantis, any sex that doesn't end in eating the male alive would appear as unnatural.

The exception proves the rule, but I think leopards and dolphins get raped by males.

I wondered the same thing he did once and realized it was stupid immediately. I can't imagine being bold enough to actually believe it and then say it out loud.

Since our nature is to be a highly societal species...

If he wants to live like an animal, strip him and drop him off in some remote wilderness somewhere.

No, Ron

You mean the ability to understand and respect the word "No"?

I mean we still can. It is just a cultural thing.

I mean, would it, though? having so much of the body involved in this way? Do you understand that, for birds, basically anything under the head can be misconstrued as intimate contact?
(This is the most awkward part of bird husbandry 101, especially when trying to teach children on how to properly handle them)

It'd be the bird equivalent of the Omegaverse!

Which sounds to me, a nonsexual asexual, like a nightmare. But is probably actually a viable xenofiction romance subgenre for someone willing to get a little weird. Well, from what I understand, most romance novels are a little weird?

Life would be so much simpler.

I'd say more Tuca and Bertie, they way they're drawn looks really similar to the show's style

Yeah my furniture my first thought too

No.

which came first.. the 7 vagines or the corkscrew penis?