"interesting" Question..

[Dakota Ice]

I hope I don't get in trouble for this.. but I've always wondered while watching my cories spawn.. do fish orgasm? Because my cories would do the "t-position" and just lay there for about a minute, with the male almost blowing around in the current. What is this? Why do they get so "weak" after the position if all she's doing is touching him with her mouth?

Sorry, it's bugged me for a while, and it may even mean my fish are sick if fish don't orgasm >.<

 

[Dorkhedeos]

FREAKOUT! grossness man, no i dont think they do. as far as we know, only dolphins and humans do it for fun. i think they get stunned like that because it helps the eggs survive, as they cant reach them right away, not sure though. like with betta, the female gets stunned and the male gets the eggs so the female cant eat them

 

[Snick]

yeah ive heard that only dolphins, humans and apes get any sort of nice feelings... the rest of the animalia are forced to reproduce by a strong instinct.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

i guess thats what the blowhole is for

 

[SamUK]

 

[Synirr]

like with betta, the female gets stunned and the male gets the eggs so the female cant eat them

Not entirely true... they both get stunned, actually, and ideally the male comes to his senses first but that's not always the case. Clumsy first-timer males often stun themselves when attempting to wrap with the female too, and the female just swims off like "what an idiot!"

I think that, yeah, that may be their equivalent of a climax . Hey, we have a built-in biological reward for procreating, they might too

Also, bonobos (pygmy chimps) do it for fun, too. Read more about bonobo social behaviour here, it's very interesting and a little too racy and human-like to quote here . Basically, they engage in a striking number of the same behaviours we do... ones you wouldn't expect.

 

[Dakota Ice]

Thanks for all the replies.

Sorry if I missed it, it's really late here, but if they don't orgasm, why do they act stunned? The female with my cories is the first to leave the scene, but the male will sit there for a good 2-3 minutes.

Also-

horses and other animals get "stunned" also. Have any of you seen someone collecting semen from a horse? The horse practically falls off the wood mount right after he "finishes."

 

[Dorkhedeos]

gross man, i dont need to know that. i guess i would get stunned too if somebody kicked my nads

 

[dwarfgourami]

From what I've read, this is thought to be the biological function of the human orgasm too: to keep us from jumping up and potentially expelling the semen. So mayve there's not so much difference. And cories certainly look as if they're having fun. Nothing gross in that, surely.

 

[invader]

I have this weird fact book and it said that pig orgasms last an hour. So, maybe the corries were experiencing it? I don't know.

 

[ramaseseniblikxviii]

I have this weird fact book and it said that pig orgasms last an hour. So, maybe the corries were experiencing it? I don't know.

Wanna be a pig, wanna be a pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I think of it as my civil duty to lower the tone)

Very interesting question, there must be some kind of reward for it in the animal kingdom, else they wouldn't bother, would they?

 

[4ftguppy]

as we know, only dolphins and humans do it for fun

hmmm - unless you have contreception available, surely its never for fun.... I don't think you can say animals don't get pleasure from sex - just because they are not smoking a cigarette afterwards

Sorry I have to rant here - I hate the 'we're not animals' vibe so often put around

This is like making the assumption animals can not think. I feel than humans as a species have tried for a very long time to increase the distance between US and Animals. Its about time we realised that we are just another animal living by all the same rules as all the others (with a few more gimmicks that an oposable thumb allows). We all (vertebrates) have VERY similar morphology - number of limbs, lines of symetry, eyes etc - and with regard breeding - the basic technique of passing DNA is pretty universal too. Yes I know there are exceptions, but I feel it unlikely that only the traditionally clever ones enjoy doing so.

How much a cory enjoys sex would have to be measured by brain chemistry, and i'm sure thats not easy to do (or easy to get a grant to even try to do)

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Well, I'm inclined to believe that animals do have them, I've seen my brother dogs thumping her leg when she really gets into 'cleaning' herself and when she looks up at you she's got the biggest dopy look on her face, my old dog once wore a small pine tree bare on one side from backing up into it repeatedly and wiggling, and then she moved on to rubbing herself up against the bottom of our truck, and my dads dog has his very own stuffed animal 'friend' he 'joins' after dinner. They were all fixed too. Not to mention I've seen my moms cockatiel rubbing itself against one of it's perches while it's head lolls to one side and it makes this funny noise...

 

[zedonepilot]

Well, I'm inclined to believe that animals do have them, I've seen my brother dogs thumping her leg when she really gets into 'cleaning' herself and when she looks up at you she's got the biggest dopy look on her face, my old dog once wore a small pine tree bare on one side from backing up into it repeatedly and wiggling, and then she moved on to rubbing herself up against the bottom of our truck, and my dads dog has his very own stuffed animal 'friend' he 'joins' after dinner. They were all fixed too. Not to mention I've seen my moms cockatiel rubbing itself against one of it's perches while it's head lolls to one side and it makes this funny noise...

something in the water maybe?
LMAO

 

[Iron Man]

Not that I converse on this subject everyday and everywhere but I too have seen more than one dog in complete lala land (and still humping). If you can't tell they are enjoying themselves....I just don't know.

But as for the subject of this thread, which is cories....I do see where you're coming from. Its hard to imagine fish getting pleasure like that, especially with their odd (to us) ways of copulation.....but I think it happens anyway.