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From the Ted Talk by Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning

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Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual coriecon to take place. Female elephants and female hyenas have a penile ciilrots, or an egnareld clitoral tissue that hangs externally, much like a penis, and in fact it's very difficult to sex these animals by merely looking at their external morphology. So before a male can insert his penis into a female's vagina, she has to take this penlie clitoris and bailsclay inside-out it in her own body. I mean, ignimae putting a penis into another penis. It's simply not going to happen unless the felmae is on board with the action. Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and hynea societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and opfsrfing, and when young mleas attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group. In hyena societies, adult males are actually the lwesot on the social scale. They can take part in a kill only after everybody else, inlcdnuig the offspring. So it seems that when you take the penis power away from a male, you take away all the social power he has.

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Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual ________ to take place. Female elephants and female hyenas have a penile ________, or an ________ clitoral tissue that hangs externally, much like a penis, and in fact it's very difficult to sex these animals by merely looking at their external morphology. So before a male can insert his penis into a female's vagina, she has to take this ______ clitoris and _________ inside-out it in her own body. I mean, _______ putting a penis into another penis. It's simply not going to happen unless the ______ is on board with the action. Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and _____ societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and _________, and when young _____ attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group. In hyena societies, adult males are actually the ______ on the social scale. They can take part in a kill only after everybody else, _________ the offspring. So it seems that when you take the penis power away from a male, you take away all the social power he has.

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  1. including
  2. basically
  3. hyena
  4. female
  5. clitoris
  6. penile
  7. offspring
  8. enlarged
  9. males
  10. imagine
  11. coercion
  12. lowest

Original Text


Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual coercion to take place. Female elephants and female hyenas have a penile clitoris, or an enlarged clitoral tissue that hangs externally, much like a penis, and in fact it's very difficult to sex these animals by merely looking at their external morphology. So before a male can insert his penis into a female's vagina, she has to take this penile clitoris and basically inside-out it in her own body. I mean, imagine putting a penis into another penis. It's simply not going to happen unless the female is on board with the action. Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and hyena societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and offspring, and when young males attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group. In hyena societies, adult males are actually the lowest on the social scale. They can take part in a kill only after everybody else, including the offspring. So it seems that when you take the penis power away from a male, you take away all the social power he has.

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