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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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every so often we experience some chemical reactions inside of us that make us wish for contact with other beings of our same nature to get in the same act that serves as a way to preserve our species, and our personalities suffer subtle changes that favour that to happen

after that we return to our usual (and sometimes shyer) self until time pases and the cycle repeats

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is almost always a rutting season and it can get very intense. With humans hornyness is all the time and more controlled.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I hate to think that this is controlled horniness, what we experience

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

If there's one thing we have in common with most animals, it's fuckin'.

[–] remon@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, of course not. We are just another mammal.

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We're actually quite unique. Most mammals don't have menstrual cycles, they have estrous cycles. And the erectile penis is also unique. Most male mammals have penis bones.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 19 hours ago

The wiki pages for "Baculum" and "Menstruation_(mammal)" where quite interesting, thanks!

Not quite the most unique thing about us, but we're in rather small club with some pretty cool mammals!

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

as the great philosophers once said: "you and me baby, we ain't nothing but mammals"

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Nearly time for Pon Farr.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

We are bound to and programmed by biology like every other animal out there! Creating healthy offspring is the highest imperative in nature and it is very deep anchored in us all. Yes we have a sentient mind and the power to, more or less, control our urges and to override the programming with other imperatives but that doesn't change that it is still in us all and that it has power.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Gosh, I wonder if that's why horny humans are sometimes metaphorically referred to as being "in heat" 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔