Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And it's when they, yeah, they put their rostrum on the other's genitals and they click and buzz.

Well, there's something for everybody in the book.

So when we're in the albatross monogamy section, you may notice we don't really talk about how they are making the eggs they're making or how those lesbians are spending time together.

I do a little bit at the end, but I wanted to have it build over time where there's these sort of like long-term love partnerships that I think we've been socialized to be more comfortable with.

And that also a lot of people get a lot of fulfillment and meaning out of and have a

in animals, they're very contextualized inside the environment they're in and the community they're in, which I think a lot of our monogamous relationships would benefit from more of.

And then we move all the way to, oh, this animal will change what sex it is, like multiple times in a copulation with another animal, like the sort of exploding of your mind is meant to happen across the progression of the book.

And I think

I don't even track at this point.

And I will be in conversations with people where I'm like, and then he stabs her with his penis.

And then she and it's like, oh, this is really extreme for a lot of people.

But Chris, then I think about how hurt I am by what is happening to many children in our country that everybody in charge is perpetuating, in many cases, to children, right?

Like what happens when we do moralize sex does not make sex safer.

It does not make people safer.

It does not make children safer.

And it does not make LGBTQ people

trans community that I value safer.

And so I do think that we can be a better human by learning again, that sexual diversity is a form of biodiversity and that, you know, when an animal is manifesting what works for that animal in its ecological niche, in the moment it's in an evolutionary time and,

if there is this sort of allowing of those options and we talk about them, again, one step removed from our own experiences, what might it open up for safer conversations about this issue and for more of this being out in the light?

I did a bit at Amber Tamblyn's Union Hall holiday show.

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