Sex in the Sea, Marah J. Hardt
Sex in the Sea, Marah J. Hardt
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Sex in the Sea
Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep

Author: Marah J. Hardt

Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/01/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals


Synopsis

Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s, while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops. From doubly endowed sharks to the maze-like vaginas of some whales, Sex in the Sea is a journey unlike any other to explore the staggering ways life begets life beneath the waves.

Sex in the Sea uniquely connects the timeless topic of sex with the timely issue of sustainable oceans. Through overfishing, climate change, and ocean pollution we are disrupting the creative procreation that drives the wild abundance of life in the ocean. With wit and scientific rigor, Marah J. Hardt introduces us to the researchers and innovators who study the wet and wild sex lives of ocean life and offer solutions that promote rather than prevent, successful sex in the sea. Part science, part erotica, Sex in the Sea discusses how we can shift from a prophylactic to a more propagative force for life in the ocean.

About Marah J. Hardt

Marah J. Hardt is research co-director for the non-profit Future of Fish. A coral reef ecologist by training, she is a former research fellow at Blue Ocean Institute. She has written for Scientific American, the American Prospect, and Scuba Diver Magazine, among other publications. She currently embraces life as a mermaid in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... on January 08, 2016

What an entertaining, educational, and forward thinking work! Marah J. Hardt reveals the curious mysteries of marine sex life in fascinating ways. Each chapter begins with a short fictional tale of the enigmatic sex life of a particular marine animal written like a romance novel. These are amusing an......more

Goodreads review by David on November 04, 2017

Despite the title this is really a book about conserving the life in our oceans. The author presents example after example of how various forms of sea life reproduces--yet there is an underlying message of how humans get in the way of this reproduction and have caused the crash of many species. Not......more

Goodreads review by Lena on November 04, 2017

"Nothing encourages unleashing a torrent of semen like having to fire at the same time as another male." "425 million years old. That’s the age of the oldest known fossil penis—a Johnson that left quite an impression." ♫ Lets talk about sex baby, let's talk about wild gametes. Let's talk about a......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 09, 2022

It's a shame that American high school studies have devolved into standardized testing and rote memorization because I think a book like Dr. Hardt's would be vastly more entertaining and educational than your bog standard sophomore biology text. Consider this sample from p. 136: "With the help of som......more