Green Porno
Yesterday the lovely Penny and I celebrated Valentine's Day by going to the Sexual Nature exhibition at the Natural History Museum. It's good fun, and well worth the money, revealing lots of beautiful and gross details about the sexual habits of various animals, with a refreshing emphasis on the variety inherent in nature and the weird restrictiveness of human sexual morality. Did you know that homosexual orangutan sex is much more cuddly and affectionate than hetero encounters? Or that spinner dolphins mate in large orgies known as wuzzles? Bisexuality, homosexuality, transexuality, polyamory - the animal kingdom has it all.
The highlight of the exhibition was a selection of Green Porno videos by Isabella Rossellini, a charming series of shorts in which she dresses up and demonstrates the bizarre mating habits of different creatures. Such as this delightful take on sadomasochistic snails:
You can view the whole series online at the Sundance Channel's Green Porno page. Look out for lesbian lizards, necromantic praying mantises, and the decombobulating vaginas of ducks...
Nice slip by Isabelle Rosselini, thak you, but have you ever seen this highly erotic scene from the movie Microcosmos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TEOgwxjLs
ReplyDeleteThat video clip was a scream. I don't think that I will ever be able to look at a snail again, without smiling. Thanks for sharing.
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Huub - no I haven't! Thanks for the link, look forward to checking it out :)
ReplyDeletePrefectdt - Man, you should totally check out the other vids on the Green Porno site. They're AMAZING. The duck one is particularly good.
I have been trying some of the other films, they are both amusing and informative. The dolphin feature was a bit of a shocker.
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