Mary Roach

The male...

The boar, that is, is using his snout, and he does stuff like he sticks his snout in the inguinal fold, which is where the thigh meets the torso, and kind of lifts her up a little bit, which I guess is exciting for the sow.

Just lifting up and dropping a little bit for a while.

Very exciting.

And then kind of poking around the vulva also with the snout.

Because he doesn't have hands.

Right.

He doesn't have hands.

Seasonal similarities, right?

The snout comes in handy.

Uh-huh.

So, that's what the worker, the inseminators, are trying, are doing.

They're lifting, they'll go and lift the sow up, like that, lift her up, and then, like, drop her down a little bit, and then poke around the...

vulva of the sow.

And then they also, and here's the overlap, pigs and people, they lie on the sow's back, which mimics the weight of the boar on the sow's back.

And then they reach around and kind of fondle the mammaries, the teats.

Oh, interesting.

A little bit.

And that's the part where I think the Danish pig farmers felt a little uncomfortable about

That was what tipped them over the edge.