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Sex, Eels and the Mysteries of the Deep, Blue Sea
LUST
Warning explicit content
a sin for one person could be a virtue for another.
Eels don’t have sex. Well, that’s not absolutely true, because they do procreate, but nobody has ever witnessed them having sex. Eel sex is a mystery. Weirdly, thousands of good souls, have followed eels around the globe to try and prove that they do have sex. Strange, I know, but I promise that I’m not lying.
Obviously, this is one of the seven wonders of the world. (No, I'm not writing satire), and it’s perplexed some of the greatest minds in history. One thing we do know, however, is that eels are “romantic” creatures because they travel to the wildly beautiful tropical destination of the Bermuda Triangle to make love. Yes, honestly. Despite our knowledge of this fact, no one has been able to catch them in the act. They are, it seems, reclusively shy.
These creatures are such a mystery that Sigmund Freud, you know, the sex doctor. Dissected over 400 eels in a vain attempt to find their gonads. Eel sex has been a conundrum for millenia, even Aristotle had a theory, in his treatise, De generatione animalium, he concluded that eels reproduced “spontaneously”, forging themselves out of thin air (or rather, mud).
A host of theories emerged during the dark, but industrious ages of antiquity. Pliny the Elder thought that they rubbed themselves up against rocks, so that their shed skin turned into little eels. Oppian, the Greek poet, argued that they coiled around each other, excreting a foamy secretion which, simply, burst into life.
How exotic does the name Sargasso Sea sound? Gorgeously spectacular, right? Well, during the fifth century BC, scientists discovered that eels vacated European waters to travel thousands of miles to their sexual playground, where they, reportedly, engaged in an orgy of procreation. They also found, that it was only on route to their tropical paradise that their sexual organs developed. So much for Aristotle and his unromantic view.
The fact that no fisherman, fishing in European waters, had ever caught a baby eel, only added to the riddle. However, enlightenment was nigh. In 1904, The Danish professor Johannes Schmidt, set sail across the Atlantic to discover the origin of eels, seriously!
As he traveled out to sea on the Atlantic, he caught smaller and smaller Leptocephali (baby eels). Culminating in his arrival at the Sargasso Sea, south of Bermuda, where he managed to snare the tiniest eel larvae ever seen. Finally, their birthing ground had been discovered.
Eels are extremely resilient and fascinating creatures, they populate fresh water streams, all the while procreating in the deepest reaches of the Atlantic ocean.
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The eels can propel themselves over wet grass and dig through wet sand to reach upstream headwaters and ponds, thus colonizing the continent.
Even more fascinating is the fact that they only complete this migratory cycle every 10 to 14 years. They grow their “tools” to complete the job as they travel. (They prepare). Adult eels die after spawning(but I think they’ve had their fun). Their young swim upstream and only arrive at their destination after a 17 month journey. I don’t know if this is about lust, but, to me, it’s certainly about love.