• Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      5 天前

      Not all asexuals are sex repulsed, it just means not being sexually attracted to others either all the time or some of the time (unless preconditions are met in the case of demisexuals or grey-asexuals). Us ace-spec people can and do have sex if we aren’t always repulsed, just not always for attraction reasons.

      Hope this makes sense and helps!

      • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        2 天前

        can’t just go and tell me I need to relearn words again!

        /s thanks for the info!! Though it makes me sort of think that anyone who isn’t asexual are essentially all “sluts” by this definition (sexually attracted to everyone around them above some personally maintained arbitrary threshold of determining attractiveness??) but I will continue to try and care both more and less about the specificities of the terms and just continue to try to take pleasure in the fact that me knowing them (or trying to have learned them at least) might provide some sense of inclusion to someone down the road [that has experienced their sexual awakening in one of the myriad of different ways possible, rather than a way in which I somehow am already familiar with which in reality seems considerably unlikely for how young/antisocial I am, or have generally been, throughout my life so far], or possibly someday help me better explain my own feelings or experiences to someone else later on, who might also know about such nuances of sexual orientation, or have had similar experiences/feelings in their life but were lacking specific words for them

        • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          2 天前

          sexually attracted to everyone around them above some personally maintained arbitrary threshold of determining attractiveness??

          From what we understand allosexuals (people who are not ace-spec) are not in fact attracted to everyone :). Maybe many people, but not all the people and not always.

          However, even if they were that’s not a bad thing, as long as it’s consensual and respectful :)

          • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.spaceEnglish
            2·
            21 小时前

            thank you for teaching me what I was just wondering about for the second time, after coming to the crisp realization that all I needed was the alternative category(-ies) which could be expected to then also exist other than the asexual branch of methodology/pathology (idk if I am using words correctly here either, lolol number man no use good speak much here). I was about to venture a guess that certainly slurs were not the correct categorization, and that perhaps “sexual” was the other categorization, however I expected that that was unlikely because it also sounds strange as a noun to me

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
      54·
      6 天前

      Most terrestrial snails are hermaphrodites, so it’s more like they can only mate with their own sex. But it’s a bit more complicated than that; they typically produce sperm earlier than they produce egg cells, to discourage self-fertilisation, so you could argue they start male and end female.

      • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
        8·
        5 天前

        Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      19·
      6 天前

      Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote “his reproductive organs”, Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      5 天前

      they are hermaphrodites, so they mate with any other snail of the same species, and the same coiled shell. they usually dont have uni-sex individuals. flatworms, annelids are hermaphrodites as well. tapeworms are a type of flatworm that self-fertilizes in thier proglottid segments.

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 天前

    Also Jeremy is an asshole because he eats all the cookies, and that makes everyone hate him.

    Don’t be like Jeremy.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      5 天前

      I’d say “this could cause speciation”. This mutation’s rarity makes for an astronomically slim chance of it occuring naturally if enough sinistral (lefty) snails meet and create a sustaining population (and also not die out through inbreeding). I don’t think there is a case of a pair of chirally opposite species. Maybe this once happened with Amphidromus inversus but if that’s the case, the two species have mutated since to be able to successfully mate both homo- and heterochirally. Now, a balanced population exists and hetero mating is more common.

      However, as humans come into the picture and can find mirrored snails and purposefully put them together, and breed them in safety into a large population (collecting newly found mutants worldwide and adding them into the gene pool to avoid inbreeding), speciation can indeed happen. The resulting mirrored snail can fulfil the same environmental niches as the original species while having an almost completely separate gene pool (only the mirror mutants of each species can cross-breed - and if my above theory is correct, the advantages of tapping into a new gene pool may have helped dextral/sinistral then-subspecies of Amphidromus inversus eventually acquire unique breedability).

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      5 天前

      No, you’re thinking of clockwise vs counter clockwise.

      As the shell spirals around itself, it does not create a flat disk. Rather, it creates a cone shape.

      If Jeremy was pointed North, the point of his cone would point to the west, while most other snails would point east.

      You can see it in the photo on this post.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      5 天前

      I think this species of snail is assymetrical, which means maybe their genitals are on the right side of their body. But a snail that coils like Jeremy has their symmetry flipped and their genitals are on the left. So Jeremy wouldn’t be able to reproduce with a typical right coiling snail because their organs don’t align. So yeah all three snails coil to the left because that’s a rare trait and needed for mating

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      17·
      5 天前

      Science because it’s a rare biological condition, called sinistral (as opposed to dextral) chirality. You also learn a new “fun science fact”: snails of opposite chirality cannot mate. (Only true for some species: for example, Amphidromus inversus has close to balanced dimorphic populations and can successfully mate both homo- and heterochirally, although hetero is more common).

      Meme because it’s a funny and relatable thing on the internet. Memes are no longer just image macros and memorable phrases.