There is a rumor going around our office that female pigs have six minute orgasms. We're hoping to nip such distortions of truth in the bud and also keep the female workers here from feeling anxious with undue expectations of themselves. Also, do animals ever do it for fun? Generally speaking, your nonhumanoid beasties, such as pigs, do not experience the Big O.
Do female pigs have six-minute orgasms? – The Straight Dope
I'm going to show you a couple of images from a very diverting paper in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that it is the most diverting paper ever published in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. The title is "Observations of In-Utero Masturbation. Now on the left you can see the hand — that's the big arrow — and the penis on the right. The hand hovering. And over here we have, in the words of radiologist Israel Meisner, "The hand grasping the penis in a fashion resembling masturbation movements.
In fact, I almost withheld the question, but felt it was one that really needs to be asked. There are many gifts and abilities that God bestowed upon animals that he denied humans. According to Swine Genetics International, a boar male pig can experience orgasms lasting from 5 to 15 minutes not seconds. And the female pig also has it better than her human counterpart.
TED Talks are pretty spectacular. They bring together the best and the brightest from fields ranging from psychology and biology to physics and cosmology, and they give these experts a space to communicate their knowledge to the public. In one series, you may see a talk on the importance of incorporating dance into the sciences. In the next series, you might see a video on how public schools kill creativity.