[samatman]

Sure, I said fairly distinctive rather than unique.

It's interesting that monogamy and mostly-consensual sex are mostly found in some birds (not you ducks), rather than our closest relatives. There are a lot of mammalian paradigms for sex, for placental mammals in our weight class there's rather a lot of intramale competition, and estrus; the female being willing to be mounted by whatever male happens to win the fight is pretty much orthogonal to consent as we humans understand it.

It seems like a pedantic objection given that both the parent and myself were talking about insects, where the concept makes very little sense.

[js2]

Fair enough. I read “fairly distinctive” as “virtually unique”.

Mantis are an insect with a mating ritual, right?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...

[samatman]

> The courtship displays of the male and female may play the role of reducing intraspecific aggression during courtship and thus reducing the likelihood of cannibalism.

Whew! I think this also has relatively little to do with consent as humans understand it!