The New Galactic Heritage Encyclopedia

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Dabara and Sorority Girl

Dabara Fact Sheet:

Human Sexual Reproduction

Contributed by Rachael Ross M.D.

 

 

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"Pop Quiz…Books on the floor please!" Mr. Daniels had a smile for us and the whole room groaned in response. He loved pop quizzes for some reason, so of course nobody liked him very much. "Here we go. Take one and pass it back."

The class in question was Human Health and Sexual Reproduction, or Sex Ed for short, so it should have been pretty fun, but it usually wasn't. Plus it could get pretty weird talking about sex in a roomful of giggling boys anyway, but having a man teacher just made it worse. That the guy could be super boring sometimes and annoying didn't help either. Having some hottie fresh out of his college fraternity teaching us sex stuff would've been way more interesting, don't you think?

At least I knew how the stuff worked though, even if I didn't know why exactly, and it's the one class actually did pretty well in. So I couldn't really complain.

"Hmmm..." I started my test and it didn't look too bad. Mostly multiple choice, which is always cool, cause the answer's right there on the paper. I hope you studied. You need to borrow my notes? I highlighted some of the important stuff that you just know will be on the test.

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Basically you need a man and a woman to make a baby, like you don't know that, right? The woman carries the eggs in her ovaries, those are neutral, meaning they don't have any chromosomes or anything, the egg is just like a tiny fusion chamber, the same way it works in your car. Except instead of fusing palladium and hydrogen to make energy, the egg fuses the male sperm with the female pistilae to make a baby. The sperm carries half the chromosomes and the pistilae has the other half and the fertilized egg turns them into a living, growing fetus.

For the man it's pretty simple, I mean everyone knows the testes, the guy's balls, make the sperm and that stuff sits in his soft little sack just waiting to come out through his penis. All he needs is a little incentive, like a good looking woman to touch him and kiss him and tell him how sexy he is. He put his penis inside the woman's vagina and has a good time until his muscles spasm and he ejaculates his sperm into her vagina, preferably way up in there, close to the cervix, which is like a bottleneck guarding the womb itself.

The funny thing is though that the male body doesn't want to waste any of that precious fluid, so it has a little safety device, a barrier called the stymen built into the epididymis, which is a hard word to remember. It's basically the duct connecting the testes to the penis through which the sperm travels. This blockage in the epididymis is like a hard little lump right near the base of the penis and you can feel it on the bottom of the shaft, at least when the guy's cock is hard. When the penis is soft it's sorta hard to find that lump, but it's still there. That's called a cherry, although nobody really knows why. Mr. Daniels said maybe because it's sorta shaped like a little cherry.

Just on the other side of the cherry, some seminal fluids come from the prostate gland and other places, making precum, or lubricant basically, and so that stuff isn't blocked at all. It goes through a different tube called the vas deferens, which is joined by the epididymis on the other side of the stymen. That's why guys get so wet before they actually cum and the seminal fluid doesn't have any sperm or anything, it can't get anyone pregnant. It just comes out to make the way smooth for the penis, as if the woman isn't already wet enough!

Anyway, the first time a boy cums, I mean really ejaculates sperm from his balls, it has to go through that barrier. So the pressure builds because he's probably already cumming long before his sperm actually comes out. It has to build up steam until the barrier ruptures, actually tears physically, and the sperm jets through the bloody hole and on up the shaft and out the tip. This can hurt some guys a lot. But some guys hardly feel a thing, which is neither here nor there, since I'm a woman. But to a boy, I suppose it's a pretty big deal and so it's a big deal to a lot of girls too. Lots of girls fantasize about it, that's for sure.

Breaking a boy's cherry, meaning having sex with a male for the first time in his life, is supposed to be pretty special. Part of the reason for that is because boys are boys, I mean they're hyper-sensitive, like all emotional and stuff. There's a lot of guys who pride themselves on being virgins on their wedding nights, and a lot of women like that too, having a new husband to care for and knowing he's never been with a woman, who's never even cum once in his life. That's sort of a turn on, you know?

Who wants to wait for marriage though? There's a lot of guys in the world, so a lot of women just figure they can break a guy's cherry and it'll be fun, even without the wedding vows and all that stuff.

But back to reproduction. So that's the man, the woman is different than that. She doesn't have anything blocking anything, at least not at first. Women orgasm too, of course, and when they do they release their own version of sperm, the pistilae, which floats around in her love juice waiting for a sperm to swim by looking for an egg. Sperm have tails, so they can swim. That's called the flagellum, and I guarantee it'll be on the test. Pistilae don't have that, they can't go anywhere by themselves, and scientist figure there's a good reason for that.

The egg needs both a sperm and a pistilae to get impregnated and it needs them at just about the exact same moment. Not a few minutes apart, not even a few seconds apart. The egg is surrounded by a thin layer of protein which acts like a little organic force field. So if a sperm finds an egg, for example, and isn't carrying a pistiliae along with it, that protein layer will kill the sperm cell. Same thing if it's just a pistilae by itself, drifting along on the current and it bumps into the egg by mistake. No sperm? Zap! The pistilae dies.

So the sperm swims by, picks up the pistilae and swims into the womb looking for the egg. Simple right? Well, the male body doesn't want to waste its sperm, remember? So neither does the female body. Women have a little barrier of their own, called the hymen, which is not really a barrier at all, but just a circular muscle near and just inside the entrance to the vagina. When a woman orgasms this muscle gets a little message that says don't let anyone out! It clamps down tight, squeezing itself around the male penis, which should be pretty deep inside the girl at that point.

This not only traps all that sperm and pistilae inside the woman, but it also traps the male sex organ. That cock isn't going anywhere. See, the head of the male penis has a crown, or a ridge around it, like a flange sorta, and so long as the hymen is locked down tight, the head of the guys penis isn't coming out, at least not by accident. The shaft can slide back and forth though, which is cool, because if you're going to be locked together you might as well have fun, right? And it isn't like the penis is going to go soft anytime soon either.

That's one reason most males are circumcised, that is the foreskin of the penis is removed, usually as an infant. It used to be a religious thing, but nowadays it's done just to look nice really, sort of traditional I guess. But on the test, if it asks why males are circumcised, it's because back in the old, old days women thought circumcision made pregnancy more likely since the foreskin, if it didn't slide back during sex, made it just a fraction easier for the penis to slip out accidentally. But modern people pretty much know that's not really true and uncircumcised men get locked up just like anyone else.. 

The whole purpose of sex is to make a baby, and both bodies know it, even if the people don't. So when a woman cums and that hymen tightens up like a vise, the rest of her vaginal muscles go into milking mode, at least that's what we call it in school, just cause it sounds funny. The real term is vaginal chorea, which sounds bad, but it isn't. Basically there are 36 little muscle pairs, which is 72 muscles altogether - watch out for that on the test, by the way; Mr. Daniels likes trick questions - those muscles really start to squeeze, like a farmer milking a cow. They massage the cock still inside the vagina, keeping it hard and happy and ready to cum again and again. And that penis isn't going anywhere, like I said, so it usually does keep cumming until every drop of sperm is gone.

The woman can't keep cumming though, at least not the big one continuously like a guy can. Men have multiple orgasms, like one right after another, even after their balls are empty. They'll keep jerking, but nothing is really coming out except seminal fluid. Anyway, a woman can't physically orgasm until her hymen retracts, because while the hymen is tensed those muscles temporarily sever the nerves that allow orgasm, but as soon as the hymen relaxes those nerves come back to screaming life, so she's usually primed and cumming within seconds. In the meantime though, that milking action feels really good because all those little muscle spasms feel like tiny mini-orgasms anyway. But the real orgasms, those are monstrous, take it from me, and most women are just begging for another big one after some 20 or 30 minutes of all those little ones.

And that's how long it takes, seriously, because the female body is just waiting, letting the egg soak in all that hot baby gravy. After about half an hour the muscles relax, the hymen opens, and if the guy's quick he can pull out, but if he hesitates, bam! The woman is gonna cum again, I almost guarantee it, and the guy's gonna be stuck for another half hour. So sex can be a very long and pleasurable experience, lasting as long as two hours sometimes, but I think an hour and a half is probably closer to normal; ninety minutes of just cumming, with brief little rest stops here and there.

So that's one of the small interesting side effects that women enjoy, the part about all those little spasms, I mean. For girls who like to masturbate, for example, having an orgasm by herself basically tricks the body into thinking she has a penis inside her. So for some time afterwards she enjoys the sensations of all those little muscles inside her trembling and squeezing and doing their job, but in reality the girl might be completely done with her masturbation and trying to do other things…Like some girls jerk off in school just so they can sit in class with that glazed happy look in their eyes.

And so this is a good place to mention the clitoris, or the clit, which is basically a female version of the penis, except it's not. It is a small organ which gets stiff and erect when stimulated and it feels amazingly good when it is. In fact, it can feel too good for some women and being over-stimulated can change pleasure into pain. So watch out for that! The clit's only real function, so far as anyone knows, is to feel good and some people, like Pope Joan XXIII said that the clit is proof that God is female and that sex is a good thing for all practicing Christians to enjoy. Other religions which engage in female circumcision and even clitorectomy don't seem to share that optimistic view. I'm glad I'm a Christian! But that's a different class.

Anyway, back to masturbation and jerking off in school, you don't really want to do that usually because (A) people can generally tell when a girl is feeling really good. She's flushed, smiles way too much, and fidgets like crazy; and (B) when a girl cums and there's no penis to block her vagina, the hymen acts like a little nozzle and all that girl juice literally squirts out of her in 2 or 3 rapid spurts, and then pretty much leaks like a faucet as her pussy thinks she needs to keep that big, hard, non-existent cock lubricated. It can be rather messy and most girls tend to exhibit a rather distinctive odor when they're aroused and it only gets stronger when they start shooting girl goo. It's not an unpleasant smell, but definitely noticeable.

That situation has lead to the interesting invention of female hygiene products, such as the tampon, which is basically a penis shaped device, a little smaller than a real one of course, made of cotton and other materials which fits inside the vagina and absorbs all that cum. It's made to be comfortable and actually feels really nice, since it gives all those muscles something to play with while they flutter with excitement. The tampon is hidden completely, with just a small string attached so that the woman can retrieve the tampon and dispose of it later. It doesn't really help with the smell though, but there are hygiene sprays which are supposed to reduce odor with varying degrees of success. 

Back to reproduction…Of course once the egg is fertilized it starts that little fusion reactor going and the first thing it does is tell the female to release a certain coenzyme called ASR, which stands for a really long word. Mr. Daniels said knowing the letters was enough anyway, so ASR is good enough. This marks the onset of female pregnancy and is called the climax, although most people confuse the word with orgasm and use them interchangeably. But they're really different and do different things.

The female orgasm releases the pistilae and stimulates the hymen, and then if she gets pregnant, the climax, which feels almost exactly like an orgasm except better, (or so I've heard, I've never actually been pregnant yet) releases a flood of thin milky fluid loaded with the ASR coenzyme that surrounds the penis and penetrates the cell walls of the male organ. Once it gets in the bloodstream, ASR activates a dormant male enzyme called DSR, which stands for another word we don't really need to memorize.

This active DSR stuff marks the onset of male pregnancy and starts a little biochemical reaction in the male's body so that he'll stop making viable sperm, meaning he still makes seminal fluid but no active sperm cells, and his breasts begin to develop the fatty tissue which will provide milk for the baby once it's born. The male's breasts grow at a rate proportional to the fetus in the mother's body, so that in about 8-9 months the man's breasts are much larger, nice and firm and heavy with milk. The nipples become larger, longer and thicker, and usually tend to leak if the breasts haven't been suckled for a while. If the breasts are unused for an extended period they will stop producing milk and when that happens the testes will begin producing living fertile sperm again. So long as a baby is there to keep sucking though, the man will keep making milk, and his sperm will be dormant.

While his body changes, the man's hormones tend to go a little crazy and they can suffer through what's called morning sickness. Basically it's just nausea and headaches and some men get it worse than others. Usually it just lasts for the first few months and then goes away. Women can get that too, although it's much less common than it is in men and called Misosympathic Mendacity. Both sexes often find themselves with strange appetites as well, hungering for foods which they might not even like, or weird combinations of food. Like a peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich, for example, which was my dad's favorite food for a while while he was pregnant with me. Mom's favorite was something she called a 'hot pickle sundae' which was vanilla ice cream with sliced dill pickles, smothered with Tabasco sauce. Yuch! Unfortunately most couples don't like the same foods when they're pregnant and can become rather unhappy with each other at mealtime.

The mother carries the fetus of course and eventually gives birth, right around nine months after fertilization. The baby comes out, the doctor gives it a little slap on the butt to clear its lungs, and the nurses clean it up, and hand it right to the father who is just waiting eagerly to bond with his brand new baby. Especially since his breasts probably ache with too much milk. Mom gets cleaned up, takes a few days off from work, admires her beautiful husband and precious child, and then gets back to the business of putting food on the table and maybe planning for a second child, since it was so much fun making the first one.

Of course just because it's fun doesn't mean you have to make a baby. There are birth control pills that men can take, which tell the testes that the sperm should be made dormant, as if he were breast feeding. It's pretty effective, but it can cause a little weight gain and in some cases stimulate the male to really begin producing milk. But that's relatively rare. Still, a lot of guys don't want to take the chance because it ruins their sexy figure, for one thing, and can be a little embarrassing, for another.

There's condoms too, latex sheaths worn over the penis, and those are pretty effective, but prone to breaking. Especially if the woman's vagina is particularly tight and aggressive, which sounds like a strange word, but it's the one they use in the text book. Mostly condoms are used not so much for birth control as they are protection against disease and viral infections. Thankfully there aren't a lot of those around though, and they put that stuff in the drinking water to kill all the bad bugs anyway. You have to go to like Bangladesh or someplace if you want to catch a cold or something, but who would want to get sick anyway? That's not on the test, by the way.

There is a pill for women, the morning after pill they call it, that females can take after a long night of good sex. It's supposed to start the menses and wash the fertilized egg away, but since most women want to be pregnant and since the birthrate is so low everywhere anyway, it isn't really popular and some countries even made it illegal. It's okay to prevent an unwanted or inconvenient pregnancy, but not okay to terminate one. That's just common sense. Menses only happens like 8 or 9 times in a woman's life and it is always uncomfortable, a month of cramps and hormonal changes, and all that. So that's probably another reason why that pill is unpopular, plus the fact that it does nothing for the dad. He's still gonna start growing milk bags, but never get the baby to go with them. Dad's don't like the morning after pill at all.

What is popular are the home testing kits, the little laboratories in a box that can tell a woman if she's ovulating or not. Women only ovulate for like a total of 3 months out of a 10 year period, which is ridiculous by any standard of measure. Not knowing when you're in that window is super frustrating, so you get a kit and test yourself, once a month…Unless you like surprises, and there are a lot of women who do. They don't bother with the kits, they just have sex all the time. I have to admit that's kinda my attitude too. I like the mystery.

A note on Female Menses: Females begin menstruation upon reaching puberty at around age 39 and have cycles lasting between 9 and 12 years until age 160 or so. The beginning of a cycle is marked by the body cleansing itself. Any unfertilized eggs and other cellular debris are discarded with a flow of blood from the uterus. This period lasts approximately one month and there are biochemical and hormonal changes in the woman's body that can present in a variety of symptoms. Changes in weight, in appetite, mood swings, increased irritability, cramps, swelling, decreased interest in physical or social activity, increased sexual drive, have all been observed without any real standard or typical patterns detected. Some lucky women don't even notice they're menstruating, except for the discharge of course. But they're the exceptions really.

After the menstruation itself is over there are seemingly random time frames when the woman is actually ovulating, that is an egg is available for fertilization by a sperm-pistilae pair. Although a woman has numerous eggs available during her cycle, only one may be active at a time, the others being dormant and unavailable for fertilization. The ovulation period is brief for each egg, lasting just a few days at the most, followed by a long period during which the woman is not ovulating. The exact triggering mechanism is unknown, but there are a lot of theories and old dad's tales, such as swallowing watermelon or pumpkin seeds can start ovulation. But nobody really believes that stuff anymore.

I guess we should talk about rape, since it is kind of a big deal, if a little distasteful to most people. As everyone knows, rape isn't really about sex at all, it's a violent crime whose intent is to assert domination over the victim. Theoretically it's possible to rehabilitate a rapist, but most people don't really believe that. Still, a society only advances through compassion and understanding, so we have to try, right? That's what my dad says, but he's pretty liberal anyway. My mom says we oughta just line rapists up next to lawyers and politicians and solve a whole bunch of problems all at once. But she's just kidding, I think.

There are really three forms of rape. Statutory Rape is when an adult, someone over the age of 18 has sex with someone under the age of 16 whether it's consensual or not. The law says that persons age 15 or younger can't give consent to adults. But they can give consent to persons under the age of 18 and have sex if they want to without anyone getting in trouble, at least with the law. Parents are a different matter altogether. Adults can have sex with minors who are between the ages of 16 and 18 provided it's consensual. Young adults, as that 16-18 age bracket is known, really do enjoy the best of both worlds, they can have sex with anybody anytime. That law has changed though, over the years, as society's perceptions and understanding of human sexuality changes. But that's what it is right now anyway.

Another sort of rape is good old fashioned Misandric Rape, which occurs when a woman forces a man to have sexual intercourse with her. Since the male erection is an involuntary muscle response, all that's really required is some physical stimulation to get the penis hard enough for penetration, once it's inside the female vagina, and especially once the woman has her orgasm, locking the penis in place, there's very little the man can do but wait for the unwanted experience to end. This is by far the most common sort of rape and women guilty of the crime are generally sentenced to spend a very long time in prison. They're enrolled in mandatory rehabilitation programs and monitored closely throughout the rest of their lives.

And then there's Misogynic Rape, in which the male forces himself on the woman. This is pretty uncommon, really, since men by nature are rather less aggressive then women, and they are usually smaller and less physically capable of overwhelming an adult female. But it does happen, usually between an adult male and a young female, or with a woman who has been coerced with drugs or alcohol. Men who are convicted of this crime are castrated and put to work making license plates for a very long time, and even when they're released from prison, misogynists are registered and watched closely, and must participate in a mandatory rehabilitation program.

So that's rape in the most basic terms, and of course there's all kinds of circumstances and what-if's and stuff for people to debate. Like date rape and when does no really mean no, and all that stuff. But generally speaking, if it's unwillful or unlawful, and you get caught, you're in big trouble. Don't rape anybody.

So um…Hmmm…Now you know all about Human Sexual Reproduction. Ready for your pop quiz?