#baculum

[great-and-small]

Totally normal thing for my parents to have in their guest bathroom

[pacificremains]

Large Alaskan river otter, with baculum and atlas

[rutestrous]

Therian only kink party on a large property where everybody gets to run around naked (or in gear, whatever man) and there are beautiful pred/prey happenings. And lots of fucking outside on a warm night. Just absolute freedom and love and passion and all that.

[gammawilson]

Ava, barbarian, mother, crone.

I finished watching episode 8 of burrows end today. It was a lot. Ava’s strength and tenacity are admirable, but I never want to be that cold, especially to my family.

Say your ‘I’m sorry’s and ‘I love you’s, they are so important, to you an others.

[shadyufo]

With Valentine's Day coming up I figured it was time to make a few more Baculum Bouquets! These real animal penis bones would make a great gift for that special spooky someone (or a treat for your own rad self! <3 ).

These will be in my Etsy shop this Sunday (1/26). Hoping to have a few other goodies ready to list then too!

[facts-i-just-made-up]

how many bones are NOT in the human body

Literally the baculum.

Look it up and enjoy the educational adventure.

[typhlonectes]

What is a baculum?

The baculum (os penis) is a bone found within the penis of certain mammals, including many primates, rodents, bats, carnivores, and some insectivores. It is an isolated bone, derived from connective tissue and located at the distal end of the penis, above the urethra. Lower mineral density and reduced stiffness of the baculum compared to skeletal bones may help reduce the risk of fracture under strain during copulation, although breakage can sometimes occur...

Read more: The Baculum

[markscherz]

Do frogs have baculae, or is that just a mammal thing?

With very few exceptions, frog's don't even have intromittent organs, so no, definitely no baculae there. Baculae are 100% a eutherian thing. But also, having the intromittent organ being the same structure as urine passes along is a very weird mammal thing as well. In most other tetrapods, excretion of urea is entirely separate from reproduction functions, and there are dedicated structures for use during copulation, if it involves intromission. And in fact, in basically all other groups, the sperm flows along a groove, or sulcus, rather than down a tube.

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