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@Ltbdl: This article had been recently rewritten, but it was reverted back to a previous revision that contains trivia sections about various species instead of a coherent overview of the subject.

To make the article more coherent, should we replace these trivia sections with sections that describe the organ's structure, like Wikipedia's article about the clitoris? Jarble (talk) 21:01, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article entirely lacks information on the organ's evolution, only having one single sentence that presents itself as entirely speculative. I've tried to google for it when I found out about seahorses, but this seems rather tough information to find. It seems most sealife never had penisses, at least external ones, and it evolved as part of amphibians (still penis-less in the sense of an external penis) leaving the sea for dry land, somewhere between amphibians and more dry-living reptiles. Most sealife seems to have penis-like female ovipositors instead, but it remains an entire mystery via Google whether seahorses and the likes actually have internal male penises. You'll find a lot of information that "male seahorses don't have penises", when that's just a shorthand for *EXTERNAL* penises. All you'll find in a lot of places is the information "the male fertilizes the inserted eggs sometime after copulation", but many sources even refer to sealife females "fertilizing" or "impregnating" the males because of this if it's species like seahorses with male breeding pouches. Which kinda begs the question whether maybe they have an internal penis and when does the male actually orgasm: During copulation or hours or days later? In that context, I've found many sources making ominous references to the males "feeding" the eggs over days and weeks inside their pouch via "secretions". --~2025-31219-72 (talk) 16:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]