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Spider Sex

posted by Zed on June 30 2003 09:31

Male spiders are dying to have sex .

Researchers found that for male orb-weaving spiders of the species Argiope aurantia completing copulation leads to certain death. The deceased suitor’s corpse is then trapped in the female genitalia. This may be a strategy to prevent other males from subsequently mating with the female, say the scientists.

J. Michael Straczynski has been engaging in some reinvention of Spider-Man during the year or so he’s written the comic, casting Spider-Man as a spider totem. Another such spider totem points out to Spider-Man that you can tell a lot about a hero by his villans: Thor fights Loki, another God. Captain America fights the Red Skull, another patriot. And look at the menagerie Spider-Man has fought: the Vulture, the Scorpion, Doctor Octopus…

Since then, for instance, our hero has fought a spider-wasp analog.

We’re still waiting for JMS to incorporate anything about spider sexuality.

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