Book description
For too long, science has ignored and obscured the multiplicity of animal sexual behaviour. With vivid, often funny and always beautiful watercolour illustrations in a work of graphic nonfiction, artist Perrin Roosevelt Ireland examines how animals express and have sex. With the help of her cats Ursula and Pudge, she…
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1 author picked Poking the Squid as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Let’s be honest, aren’t we all insanely curious to know how other species do it? Oh, be careful what you wish for.
This ribald, sex-positive survey of the erotic, even kinky proclivities of our fellow animals had me in stitches—when it wasn’t blowing my mind.
Queer sex? Check. Female orgasms? Check. Literal gender fluidity? Check. Divorce, infidelity, oral sex… turns out, anything humans do, other animals thought of first and sometimes take further. As a bonus: Colorful, playful, graphic-novel-style illustrations mean you don’t need to imagine seahorse sex.
From Jeff's list on nonfiction animal books that make you go holy sh*t!.
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