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Here are some tasks you can do: Expand: Areas to cover: Mating dances/rituals and recognition Mate choice Mate guarding (pre/post copulatory) Nuptial feeding (including sperm) Copulation and duration of mating Mating effort Mate desertion/abandonment Mating systems, remating Hermaphrodite mating
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Contents 1 Nonsense about midgets 2 Copulation 3 merging 3.1 merging dropped 4 Line of text Cut 5 Satire

[edit] Nonsense about midgets

Listen folks. Midgets have sexual needs to you know.

Funny how you see species of living organisms copulating and say "okay" and then you look at the human picture and you could possibly cry "porn!" (certainly in other different, but essentially the same depictions). Ha ha, aren't we humans strange things?

Is that a midget? yeah. is that really necessary? i'm opposed to censorship, especially self-censorship, but what is essentially midget porn is pretty unprofesionnal.Miles 00:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Err, are these pictures accurate? They look like something from a humor website

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This article should include a picture of humans copulationg!--67.49.215.31 06:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

It does, apparently... one of them is a midget. 65.68.145.113 21:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

LOL, A midget! 85.11.215.190 12:03, 16 October 2006 (CET)

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I put in a good, non-graphic shot of human copulation, if anyone objects, say so.--Revrant 02:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh I'm sorry can someone fix the links heh... WinterSpw 22:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Damns, I can't believe that no one has just grabbed their girlfriend, put it in and said 'cheese' incidentally, would human copulation best be represented by the missionary or doggy positions? The only time i've seen it in a 'wild' context would in a documentry (the expensive human evolution one where the actors were all French (ofcourse they didn't speak french but the 'making of' showed it). In that documentry, an early human grabs another early human of another subspecies and trys to put it in doggy style. but it does seem that the missionary position is more common nowadays..... so will two good specimens please mate or act as if they are mating and take a pic please :D

in the meantime, should it be represented by one of the illustrated drawings on the sexual positions page? Fatfool 14:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copulation

These shouldn't be merged; Copulating is a physical act, whereas Mating covers a much wider area. Which means that guys and girls make babies. Canaen 09:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merging

see Talk:Sexual_intercourse#merged_mating. Redirecting this article soon. The first disambiguation sentence should be moved there before redirect. Lara bran 12:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merging dropped

See Talk:Sexual_intercourse#merged_mating. Lara bran 05:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Line of text Cut

I have removed the line of text "Once the sperm is in goes WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and swims away into the organs."...Do i really need to justify this? Tristan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.149.122.173 (talk) 02:46, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

No, but you should read help:reverting, because you haven't removed all the vandalism. I'll tidy it up. Richard001 (talk) 03:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Satire

Is the line "Not to be confused with sexual intercourse" satirical? It made me laugh. 207.164.21.130 (talk) 23:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I can see why you might think that's funny, but no, that's an entirely serious hatnote. There's some discussion at Talk:Copulation about the distinction between mating and sexual intercourse. The hatnote here is to disambiguate the two articles. -Noca2plus (talk) 23:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)