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

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

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

"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

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