@Keyser Söze 477910 wrote:
I just think its not a very pleasant sounding word that’s all
probably because its associated with a creature many folk find unpleasant and often a nuisance in the garden with bizzare reproductive habits
Apophallation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apophallation is a technique resorted to by some species of air-breathing land slugs such as Limax maximus and Ariolimax spp. In these species of hermaphroditic terrestrial gastropod mollusks, after mating, if the slugs cannot successfully separate, a deliberate amputating of the penis takes place.
The slugs are hermaphroditic and have a full set of organs of both sexes. They have relatively large penises which, during mating, wrap around each other in a tight spiral. They sometimes have difficulty separating afterwards. When separating seems impossible, one slug gnaws off either its own, or its partner’s penis, so that separation is then possible. No replacement penis grows, and the apophallated slug adopts a purely female function from that point onward.
that said when I worked at Defra, one slithered into the loo on a rainy day. An African janitor who cleaned the loos was asking me “what is this?” – as he had never seen such a creature before. They do have snails in Africa, but the hot sun would dry out a slug – such creatures are more suited to rainy old Blighty. At least they feed the hedgehogs, frogs and toads…
