Sunday 22 August 2010

Violent love


This picture shows two scorpions engaged in lovemaking. Love is perhaps not the most appropriate word as they still have the natural scorpion urge to kill and eat each other. The first step in the process is  that each grabs the others pincers, neutralising the threat. These are by far the most dangerous weapons as scorpions are immune to their own venom.

It must be horrific having a sexual partner who at any moment might, without warning, suddenly and viciously tear you to shreds. It must be a lot like having it off with a midwife.





2 comments:

  1. "It must be horrific having a sexual partner who at any moment might, without warning, suddenly and viciously tear you to shreds. "

    Dream on!

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  2. You are going to catch it for that.

    Can't say I have ever had a good experience with a madwife. First with my kids (thrown out of the labour room). Then as a student doing a 'maternity' block (failed my assessment because I said I would never want to be a midwife - despite no male midwives at the time). To delivering babies in our ED (no matter what we do it is wrong).
    Strangely, or perhaps inevitably, every time a senior nurse manager retires they always say she worked as a midwife before going into management.

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