{"product_id":"poking-the-squid-what-we-can-learn-from-animal-sex","title":"Poking the Squid","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe secret sex lives of animals are not so secret anymore, thanks to this brilliant, punchy illustrated guide to how the other 99.99% get it on.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride through queerness, infidelity, consent, divorce, sex change, and even sexual cannibalism in the animal world. \u003ci\u003ePoking the Squid\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the splendid diversity of nature's eroticism. For too long, science has prudishly obscured the wildly creative kinkiness of animal sexual behavior. But \u003ci\u003ePoking the Squid\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates how assumptions about sex are shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIreland interviews researchers probing the leading edge of animal reproductive biology and, with the help of her cats Ursula and Pudge, brings readers along as she learns the latest discoveries that implode traditional notions of sex roles, relationships, and just who is mounting whom. These researchers are making dolphin vaginal popsicles, retrieving sperm packets from male squid mouths, and documenting dolphin orgies. From the externalized clitoris of the spotted hyena to mating-by-fusion in anglerfish, \u003ci\u003ePoking the Squid\u003c\/i\u003e draws on decades of feminist and queer theory to show that sexual diversity is biodiversity, and boisterous boinking is only natural.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIreland reminds us that we humans, from habitat destruction to climate change, impact all of animal life, including their private lives. Yet Earth's sexual ecosystem is filled with joy, resilience, and vitality--a balm to climate grief and a reason to protect all forms of nature's pleasure. And by illuminating and celebrating animal diversity, \u003ci\u003ePoking the Squid\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to embrace our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Poking the Squid What We Can Learn from Animal Sex","offer_id":46307860644037,"sku":null,"price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-324-08904-9.jpg?v=1780543117","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/poking-the-squid-what-we-can-learn-from-animal-sex","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}