Ann Jones

How are you?

Oh, good.

Well, I just wanted to warn you about this program.

It has adult themes and language, including discussions about sexual violence in the animal world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, look, I think, you know, you should just approach it with caution.

It has a little spike.

So what does a pinky prickle like that do inside a female?

Well, Patti Brennan, who dissects sexual parts for a living, got her hands on the reproductive tract of a female alpaca just after she'd been mated.

They weren't my favourite anyway.

Sex is weird, am I right?

Even when it doesn't involve using a penis like a chimney brush to maul the insides of your lover, it's odd.

But why do we do it?

And by we, I mean whales, dingoes, lizards, starfish, alpacas.

In this episode, we're going on a tour of all of the things that have often been ignored as science has dragged itself around by its ball bearings.

Females.

It's the war of the sexes, right?

And males can be pretty pushy about their own reproductive rights.

They don't call it genital warfare for nothing.