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# Do Hippos Make Good Lovers?
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/202301190134/
- Published: 2023-01-28T01:24:30.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-28T01:24:30.000Z
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: love

> We drift out of the invertebrates, through the Hall of Amphibians (“I loved *Eryops*: clumsy amphibians out of water who took on grace and ease once back in it.”) and presently into a room featuring a display of stuffed hippos. “Ah, my friends!” exclaims Oliver, rapt. **“I used to have erotic fantasies of all sorts here, and by no means all human (*hippos in the mud!*); indeed, not all organic (*the mud!*).”** He sighs dreamily, only barely selfparodic: **“A hippo would make a wonderful bed partner,”** he pronounces definitively.\* ([View Highlight](https://orionmagazine.org/article/play-and-devotion-with-oliver-sacks?%5F%5FreadwiseLocation=0%2F45%2F5%2F3%2F1%2F1%2F1%2F3%3A0%2C5%2F3%2F1%2F1%2F1%2F3%3A47&ref=bramadams.dev#:~:text=We%20drift%20out%20of%20the%2Cbed%20partner%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20pronounces%20definitively.%2A))

I think Moto Moto likes you

As a thought experiment, why would a hippo make a good lover? Is it because hippos would offer a strong comforting presence? [202212291355](https://www.bramadams.dev/202212291355)

Perhaps some have a muck spreading fetish?

> Hippos engage in "muck-spreading" which involves defecating while spinning their tails to distribute the faeces over a greater area. Muck-spreading occurs both on land and in water and its function is not well understood.

> [Hippopotamus - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus?ref=bramadams.dev#Characteristics%5Fand%5Fadaptations)

> …according to Herbert Marcuse’s stepson Osha Neumann, “\[Marcuse\] ‘would sit with this one stuffed hippo on his lap, and **project this image of a non-genital, non-aggressive sexuality.’** Marcuse shared that fondness with Adorno, who … in letters to his mother would address her as ‘My dear, faithful Wondrous Hippo-Cow’ and sign himself off as ‘Hippo King.’”

> [Orion Magazine - Play and Devotion with Oliver Sacks](https://orionmagazine.org/article/play-and-devotion-with-oliver-sack?ref=bramadams.dev)