Fascinating Sex Facts From Every Corner (16 GIFS)

Thad Roberts was just trying to live out every human’s dream by ‘having sex on the moon.’ According to TimesNow, back in 2002 Roberts – an intern at NASA – stole nearly $21 million worth of moon rocks. He then proceeded to lay them out on a motel bed, and had sex with his girlfriend.

Roberts was eventually arrested, and the rocks were said to be contaminated and unable to be studied.

Female brown trout will fake orgasms about 50% of the time. If the male is not in the right position or not ‘worthy’ of her eggs, the female will shake like normal, but won’t release the eggs. According to CBC, she’ll then continue to mate until she finds a suitable father.

There are very few species on this planet who like to mate in private. Humans are one, and Arabian Babblers are another. National Geographic claims that Babblers may hide their sexual escapades in order to keep the peace.

Breeders’ Cup and Triple Crown winning horse, American Pharoah has a stud fee of $200,000. He can have sex up to three times per day according to BuzzFeed.

According to the National Library of Medicine it is possible to transfer a nut allergy via sexual intercourse. A woman was found to have had an allergic reaction to Brazil nuts after her boyfriend had ingested them before sex.

The earliest artistic depiction of sex is a chiseled piece of white calcite cobble. According to The Times of Israel, the piece is 11,000 years old and was discovered in a cave near Bethlehem in the 1930s.

According to ScienceDaily, Barnacles have the largest penis-to-body ratio, with their manhood growing up to 8 times their own body length.

Pigs hold the record for the longest orgasms out of any mammal. A pig orgasm is 30 minutes, but some have been known to last up to 90 minutes long.

How could we ever forget Diego, the Galapagos Tortoise. According to BBC, it is estimated that Diego has fathered about 40% of the 2,000 surviving tortoises. After literally saving his species with his massive libido, Diego retired, and was released back into the wild in 2020. Legend.

Thanks to HappyMag, we now know that a Tapir’s penis is long enough to scratch its own back.

Some male butterflies are known to mate with a female, then ‘mark’ his partner with a foul stench to ward off other suitors. According to Chris Jiggins, a Zoology professor at the University of Cambridge, “Males want to pass their genes onto the next generation, and they don’t want the females to have babies with other fathers so they use this scent to make them unsexy.”

According to IFL Science, exposure to Ultraviolet Light increases sexual desire in humans. A skin protein – p53 – has now been confirmed to regulate the connection between horniness and UV rays.

Female armadillos have the ability to hold off on pregnancy. Typically mating occurs in the summer months, but according to Pets on Mom, mothers-to-be will delay their pregnancy so that babies are born in the spring when food is more plentiful.

Male bed bugs use their hypodermic penis to check for rival suitors and inject semen into their mate. By stabbing the female in the side, males then release semen into the body cavity. Thank you Science.org.

Orkin once published a piece on honey bee mating. Drones (male honey bees) will mate with the Queen. Their genitals will then explode, and they die. Fun times.

Scientists can now tell if a woman has recently had sex just by the way her hips move when she walks. In a study involving Belgian women’s gaits, results were over 81% accurate according to the National Library of Medicine.