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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Could be worse:

We don't have cloacas.

[–] SolarMonkey 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk, shitting an egg/baby sounds a lot better than present human childbirth..

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree, but being egg bound sounds about as bad as dying in childbirth.

[–] SolarMonkey 6 points 1 month ago

I feel like if that happened with a human it would be a pretty minor thing to go up in there and smash the egg so you just shit out the shell and stuff. I don’t really see a reason it would have to be fatal, or even really all that big of a deal, if that’s just what human reproduction looks like.

Now if we were using the cloaca in the same way we presently use the vagina, as a birth canal for developed offspring, that would be a different story, but ultimately not all that different from now.

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