03/21/2025
The truth about cat s*x
I'm going to have to admit, when I am encouraging people to have their cats neutered, internally I don't react well when they tell me they don't want to take away the cats pleasure in having s*x. And here are the things I try to tell them in a reasonable tone…
- while cats exhibit affection for each other in many ways, their reproductive urges are governed by their hormones. Take away those hormones, and you are not going to see them participating in s*xual activity. That could be one clue that they don't think about s*x like humans do…
- Something many people don't know is that the p***s of a male cat can have up to 180 barbs on it. Yes barbs – maybe not quite as sharp as the thorns on a rosebush, but definitely barbs. And the purpose of these barbs is reproductive – during the mating process, the barbs on that male cat's p***s rake the inside of the female cats va**na, and this stimulates the ovaries to release eggs. Everything I have read implies this is painful to the female cat, which is why she screams. I had someone suggest to me that we don't really know if she's feeling pain, after all don't humans oftentimes scream during s*x? Well all I can say is the thought of 180 barbs raking the inside of that cats va**na does not sound like a pleasurable thing to me, and having actually observed the female cats being pinned down and bred, there is nothing that would imply pleasure in anyone viewing it. At least not for the female.
- people who believe s*x is an active pleasure for the cats are equating it with human s*x. But female cats only engage in s*x when they are in heat – it is a reproductive function. Male cats might be prone to try to mate more often, but once they are neutered those urges usually go away (this is being edited per all the comments on this post to note that male Cats often will continue a mounting behavior with other cats – this is not s*xual behavior, see the link in the post farther down on this page discussing hu***ng behavior). Humans do not need to be experiencing hormonal reactions to have s*x – the two are not the same.
So maybe let's get away from thinking the cats are doing this to have fun. Throw in the fact that the female cats are breeding constantly- having 2 to 3 litters a year, no break at all from the constant cycle of in heat, being bred, pregnant, labor and delivery, nursing kittens for 6 to 8 weeks, weaning them, and beginning the cycle all over – no I would say cat s*x is not fun at all. It might not be quite as hard on the boys except for the fact that they are constantly fighting with each other, beating each other up, getting infections, passing diseases and being hated by humans because of the spraying issues. The endless kittens being born with nobody wanting to take them in is the sad end result of cat s*x.
(***editing this to include this link about why male cats might continue to mount other cats after they have been neutered – lots of comments about this in the comment section! https://www.thesprucepets.com/stop-hu***ng-behavior-554062?)
Come on everyone - whether you do cat rescue or not, get the cat fixed! They're really not having a good time, and their lives will be so much better when they're fixed!
(** please do your best to be courteous in your comments and responses, the goal is to educate and people will hear that better if you don't call them stupid☺️**)
