Incoming!

While trying to inseminate, you cause damage. Stab in the eye or other body part. Then, while the would-have recipient is dealing with the pain, you slip it in and deposit what you want to leave.


I always love the, "But look, other creatures do it, too, so it's natural. If it's natural for them, it's okay when humans do it."

I've seen that motivated-reasoning-by-analogy used a time or two, intended to be a convincing refutation of any moral argument opposed to the human practice under consideration.

Since this is basically saying snails do it, that means it must be okay stab a woman and have sex with her as she deals with the pain from the stab wound. By that measure something like drugging her is actually kinder and gentler. Not that I expect this analogy to be pointed out. Or the underlying fallacy of using analogical reasoning where it doesn't apply to suddenly be rejected.

Of course, that would nullify the entire black-widow mode of reproduction, something that isn't entirely culturally unacceptable.