Oral sex 'common in bats'

Fruit bats regularly engage in oral sex, according to groundbreaking new research published in Science magazine.

 

Fruit bats, getting fruity Photo: PLoS ONE

The study found that more than two-thirds of female short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus sphinx) performed fellatio on their sexual partners, and that they were rewarded with longer bouts of intercourse as a result.
Previously, the only animals known to carry out oral sex – apart from humans – were bonobo chimpanzees.

 

However, the study, by Libiao Zhang and his team of biologists from Guangdong Entomological Institute in China, found that female bats were enthusiastic fellators, with 70 per cent performing oral sex on their mate during intercourse.
Science magazine reported: “Both sexes groomed each other during courtship. But then came the shocker.
“After the male mounted the female from behind, she bent over and began licking his penis.”
The research found that the longer a female licked for, the longer the intercourse: on average, a second of fellatio gained six seconds of intercourse. On average, mating lasted four minutes for fellators, twice the average of non-fellating females.
The researchers could only speculate why the females would want longer-lasting sex. They suggested that it could be a way to improve the transport of sperm, or to keep males away from rival females for longer.
Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta and an expert on bonobo chimpanzees, said: "The finding of fellatio in bats is exciting news."
He went on to say that animal oral sex may be more common than we realise, but researchers’ prudery has prevented this fact becoming known. He said: "Part of the reason fellatio is rarely mentioned is shyness about this issue."
Paul Vasey, a behavioral scientist at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, said that there could be evolutionary reasons for fellatio, and that the fruit bat discovery could allow scientists to test it. He warned, however, that the bats could just be doing it for fun.
An MPEG of the bats is available for the curious here.

Coffee Creek prison guard arrested for dispensing cream to female inmate

WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Police arrested a former prison guard on suspicion he had sexual contact with a female inmate in a control room for prison cell doors.

Detectives arrested Darcy Aaron MacKnight, 29, at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning in southeast Portland on a warrant for custodial sexual misconduct in the first degree and official misconduct in the first degree.

MacKnight worked at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Ore., from Aug. 14, 2006, until he resigned Jan. 8, 2009.

In December 2008, Oregon State Police investigated allegations that MacKnight had sexual contact with a female inmate in a control room between two housing units at Coffee Creek. The room houses controls allowing access to the units as well as individual cell doors.

Inmates are not allowed in the control room, according to the Department of Corrections.

A Washington County Grand Jury indicted MacKnight on the charges.

Pair go one sex pose too far

Saucy position ... the deck chair

A KINKY couple were rushed to hospital after getting trapped in a position from the Kama Sutra sex manual.

Horrified Ivan Sokolov, 56, found he was stuck fast when his wife Valentina 51, had a muscle spasm as they romped in a position known as the "deck chair".

After failing for an hour to free themselves the red-faced couple dialled paramedics in Kalhuga, central Russia, for help.

Docs could barely stop sniggering as the couple arrived at hospital still locked together in the position, rated only "moderately difficult" in the ancient India lovers’ guide.

“The man was so desperate to escape he eventually pulled himself free but his poor wife needed treatment for her spasm,” said one medic.

The couple had been given the book by a friend and had decided to try out some of the positions for the first time.

Deck chair - or Indrani as it’s traditionally called - involves the woman drawing up her knees so her feet are jammed under her partner’s armpits.

“You need quite a high level of fitness for some of these positions. An average middle aged couple like this would find a lot of them quite challenging,” said one expert.