Duck mating can be surprisingly brutal, but females have a way to avoid giving birth to offspring from aggressive males. Richard O. Ducks are different from most birds in the fact that male ducks have a penis, analogous with the mammalian or human penis. And the fact that ducks still have a penis allows them to force copulation in ways that are unavailable to other birds. Unpaired males will attempt to force copulation during the egg-laying season. There are even socially organized groups of males pursuing females to force copulation. This is really physically harmful for the female ducks. They are stressed out. They fly away, dive, and do everything they can to avoid it. Sometimes they even drown because ducks often copulate in the water.
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Pro-choice ducks?
Ellen D. Ketterson, Do Animals Have Gender? Joan Roughgarden. University of California Press, Berkeley, Soon after transitioning as a transgendered woman, Joan Roughgarden, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, undertook a book-writing project to celebrate and explain diversity in sexual presentation. To do so, she explored all aspects of sexual reproduction, including the sexual behavior of animals, the development of human sex differences, and the varied role that gender plays in world cultures. As she became deeply engrossed, however, Roughgarden also concluded that experts in each of the academic disciplines she explored were disparaging of diversity. Because my interests are in animal behavior and sexual dimorphism, I was preadapted to enjoy the book, and enjoy it I did.
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I just feel relieved that there are others of you out there in the same boat as me. Thank you for pointing this out. How long did you date him and put up with that. Thanks for sharing your story. I was thinking about this last night after listening to Radio West. Count yourself lucky that your boyfriend is able to even consider going to parties with you even if you don't ultimately make it to them. Some exceptions and valid reasons do exist for divorce but self righteousness is not on of them.