Talk:Mating

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

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Micoolio101 (talk • contribs) 

---

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)

[[Category:]]

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)

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)

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)

merging dropped

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

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)

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)

Contradict?

The head section says that mating means something between animals, but this article has a section that introduces plant mating. And, in my sense (maybe wrong), mating is a biological concept which can be applied on all life forms. luuva (talk) 11:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Pleasure vs. reproduction

The end of the animals section seems to confuse proximate and ultimate causes in that it seems to suggest that pleasure and reproduction are two alternative reasons why animals and humans reproduce. Of course, sex being pleasurable is an adaptation that ensures reproduction occurs. An animal doesn't know anything about reproduction, it just mates because it's pleasurable (leaving aside the organisms which can't feel pleasure, whichever those are). Richard001 (talk) 00:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Most of animals don't have enough intelligence to know about the correlationship between there sexual behavior and reproduction. luuva (talk) 22:11, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Most animals may not know why they are mating, but almost all of them mate when the female is in estrus (in heat); this is why non-human animals are not thought to have sex generally for pleasure, like humans do. When they engage in mating behavior, it is almost always due to the reproduction factor urging them on. This is also sourced in the Sexual intercourse article. Flyer22 (talk) 19:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)