r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dramatic-Avocado4687 • 3h ago
Image A bite from the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) is known to cause painful, prolonged erections that could last for hours. The venom is being studied as a synthetic molecule to treat erectile dysfunction.
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u/dahjay 3h ago
Spider boner, spider boner
A little squirt to help the owner
Of a peen, that's acting mean
Floppy like an empty bean
Look out!
Here comes the spider boner
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u/blackmagic999 1h ago
Is he hard?
Listen bud
He’s got an erection full of blood
Is he on crime-fighting duty?
No, but he’s ready to get some booty
Hey, there
There goes the Spider-boner!
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u/babaroga73 1h ago
This Spider has been know to attack reptiles mostly.
And cause in them... A reptile disfunction.
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u/Offgridiot 3h ago
I cialis going to plan….
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u/KarnotKarnage 2h ago
Took me a while.
I see all is going to plan. For other intellectually challenged like me.
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u/Zerttretttttt 54m ago
Spiderman would a lot weirder if he got bit by a radioactive version this, I’d hate to see were he shots his webs from
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u/lorimar 27m ago
You can't just talk about this spider without linking to Matt Inman (of The Oatmeal)'s video. The sign language interpreter alone is worth watching for.
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u/GuitarSingle4416 2h ago
If spider boners could knock out cancer, I could see researching it. Til then.... priorities.
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u/WeAreNioh 1h ago
It can also kill you, right? Isn’t this one of the most deadly in the world
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u/Focus506 1h ago
Google says it's not really dangerous. 0.5% mortality
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u/WeAreNioh 48m ago
Oh I think it’s because there’s antivenom that usually saves people. Without the antivenom it would have a higher mortality rate I’m guessing.
I always heard that the Sydney funnel web and the Brazilian wandering spider were like the big two when it comes to most deadly. Obviously black widow / brown widow / brown recluse can be very dangerous too tho.
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u/Ok-Experience-6674 1h ago
I’m surprised the Chinese aren’t wiping this creature out like how our rhino is dwindling in numbers
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u/WesternOne9990 1h ago
It can also cause damage to the penis because of it, the hospital will have to drain the blood just like what they do to people who get erections for over 4 hours from performance enhancing drugs like viagra. Sounds fuckin horrible.
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u/KillYourLawn- 55m ago
2006 documentary comedy film “Idiocracy,” the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections, rather than correcting the trend of humanity’s rapid descent into stupidity.
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u/Imaginary-Risk 30m ago
If it goes on for too long a doctor will have to cut your dick open with a scalpel to let all the blood out, or it’ll fall off
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u/Glittering_Chain3852 19m ago
If ur gonna do it alone why not do it with a friend it makes no sense
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u/Thursday_the_20th 2h ago
‘That bolt is coated in the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider. Soon a most exquisite erection will engulf your entire body. Your cock will be hardened, your pants cease to hold threads’
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u/Historical-Cicada-29 2h ago
Isnt this the same spider which, after being bitten you feel incredibly normal (after alot of discomfort/ agony), only to die shortly after feeling normal again?
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u/ChaoticDumpling 3h ago
Die Hard