Freaks of Nature at UW

Seattle was only able to pull down a "World's Most Lesbian-Friendly City" award in a recent "World's Sexiest Cities" poll, but there's been no dry spell of sex-related news in our papers lately. Today, someone at the UW is getting recognition for some of the weirdest sex since, well, last week.

From the P-I:

University of Washington professor Ted Pietsch is the world's expert on these fish, notable for engaging in "sexual parasitism" -- a phenomenon in which tiny male fish latch onto relatively gigantic females, melding into them.

So if you think you're one Sex in the City episode away from melding into your girlfriend's genitals remember that it CAN HAPPEN. Alright, it's only LIKELY to happen if you're a deep ocean fish desperately scouring the lightless depths for that once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a piece of intra-species ass, but it can happen.

Pietsch is being honored by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists for his work exposing the fucking insane details of the Ceratioidei fish's life (although Seattlest hopes that they clean up the language a bit for the plaque). The sexual parisitism research is important because it gives us something strange to point and laugh at, but also because it may uncover information relating to the transplanting of human organs.

The four dudes currently scouring the lightless depths of the internets for any sign of other vagina melding fetishists are free to contact each other in the comments below.

We'd also like the "Intelligent Design" people to chime in on this one.