How do porcupines have sex without hurting each other? Do they use a 'tough-love' method or are they all S & M

Answer 1

Cumbersome would be a good word to describe what it’s like to carry 30,000 barbed quills on your back, but it may not be a strong enough way to describe the delicate art of porcupine procreation. Mostly solitary, these large, cautious rodents mark the transition to winter with a burst of reproductive activity from October to November. During brief encounters between males and females, or between males vying for a female’s attention, these normally silent animals utter a bizarre variety of what have been called “love songs” consisting of squeaks, moans, whines, wails, grunts, and coughs. Prior to copulation, a male performs a three-legged walk while holding his genitals with a forepaw, rubs his genitals on rocks and branches, and then tries to heighten the amorous mood by standing upright and wetting the female’s belly with urine. From this standing position, the pair sometimes tumbles over, leading to mistaken assumptions that porcupines mate lying down facing each other. After copulation, a tricky affair with quills, the female quickly loses interest in the male and wanders off to spend the winter sleeping in treetops and nibbling on the bark of conifers.

Answer 2

In reality, however, the male porcupine uses urine to soften the females' quills before mating

Answer 3

They use a special precision technique,they've gotten it down to a science.

Answer 4

Their underbellys have no quills

Answer 5

All it takes is a little prick lol

Answer 6

Lol. What a dumbass question

Answer 7

all oral