Slug Porn

So, I was getting ready to leave my mom's house on Sunday morning, and as I was loading stuff into the trunk of the car, I noticed this little construct dangling off the side of her house. Possessing always in me the fascination all 8-year-old boys have with All Things Gross and Slimy, this was an absolute find. I wasn't quite certain as to what I'd just stumbled upon, just that it was this slimy, slug-like structure hanging by some sort of mucousy strand off the side of mom's house.

Dangling from the end of this sort-of conical slug-structure was potentially the grossest part of this whole thing. It was sort of like a bit of egg white that this two-headed slug-strosity had blown like snot out of its collective nose. It didn't look like something that the slug (two slugs that had mutated? I couldn't tell) had sloughed off, but instead something that it was making. Whatever the case, the egg-white consistency of the stuff made it that much grosser... and thus, that much cooler.

This construct was attached to the side of the house by some kind of stringy substance that looked like it might have been applied by a Spiderman-esque web shooter. The slug/slugs were hanging off the siding of the house from a long (like 12") string of goo that was attached to the house by this patch of stuff. Something dawned on me at this point... was I watching two slugs (and rather large ones at that) going at it? They were both attached by this stringy substance that appeared to trail out of their nether regions. Were they hangin' all akimbo on the house getting freaky? Was this how slugs have sex? If so, did that make me a purveyor of slug porn?

While I was continuing to get stuff packed in the car, the egg-white sac (man, now there is a word I love) that was hangin' off their faces had either been consumed or had dropped off into the earth below. Whatever the case I didn't look for it because I was more interested in watching these two slugs - who until now were hanging inert in this weird construct suspended by goo & attached to the side of my mom's house - started moving around, slithering over one another, the purpose of which I couldn't begin to tell you. But slither they did, so I took a picture as their coupling broke.

This last shot happened a few minutes later. It's clearly two slugs, one just a shade darker than the other, both larger than any slugs I've seen in my entire life. They've detached themselves from the gooey string that had been holding them to the house and were now slithering along the siding under their own power. They were uninterested in the other slug and the remnants of the gooey string (which I thought they might consume if this was some kind of protein-manufacturing session). They crawled around on the house for a while and vanished into parts of the loamy earth about an hour later.

I'm not entirely sure what all this was, but if I happened to walk in on two slugs goin' to town on the side of a house, and I was able to take pictures of it, and if you've now looked at them...

Well, aren't you a little pervert?