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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

So snails can mate with any sex?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Snail sexes are clockwise, counterclockwise, and Jeremy

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have the urge to print, frame and hang this comment on the wall.

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

Do a cross-stitch!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.lol 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Youth to inject random new genes for testing and age to work with what’s tried and true …. Huh.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Snail sex is weird and complicated, at least compared to what humans have.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Land snails are hermaphroditic

[–] jim_v@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Air snails are hard to study.

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 11 points 1 month ago

"Oh are they?! Poor air snail scientists!"

  • plasma snail scientist
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, so that's what it feels like to be left-handed...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You sound like you're left handed

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not having to worry about gender/sexuality (except asexuality I guess) in your dating pool and still failing

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.space 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] oascany@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Involuntary cnail

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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

Don't be like Jeremy.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

King Jeremy the wicked rules his world

[–] DirtyCNC@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Situs inversus totalis. And yes, there is yuri featuring it. It is technically wholesome but feels a bit forced (humans' external anatomy is symmetrical so the girl's SIT is not as consequential as the snail's)
Yui Hirasawa from the anime K-On! with red line dividing her face. Top text: "I have two sides" Bottom text: "I'm a bilateral animal"
(Unrelated character, not from the hentai)

4 pages, English, monochrome, uncensored, females only. Wholesome List rating: A+. Content warnings: NSFW, dysphoria, explicit self harm. nhentai #334159/nhentai via cubari.moe frontend/E-hentai

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the fucking fuck was this.

[–] DirtyCNC@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup, weird (not nearly as weird as some other hentai plots), but at least it was short. Sometimes the manga turns unwholesome or unrealistic after dozens of pages, which I find awfully insulting to the reader. It's Wholesome List's shortest hentai but I don't think it deserves A+.

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[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doesn't it depend on whether you are looking at the left or the right side of the shell?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

No, Jeremy’s left!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this does cause speciation when they cant mate with a differently coiled snail, down the line.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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).

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

The legendary clover eating Insnail

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But all three seem to be coiling in the same direction? All tilt to the left side and coil clockwise.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Okay, thanks

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