Seriously, believe whatever you want to believe (religion or science) but keep it to yourself - don't press it on anyone else. Nobody likes this shit - it's old, and none of us want to read it anymore.

This probably could have used a warning, but it really doesn't matter - it's safe for work, and pretty interesting. I, for one, am not bothered by it.

I know it's natural, but still. Makes me wonder what that thing must smell like.

It seems to be that because it's a part of a female reproductive system, people are finding it scandalous. It feels weirdly puritanical. Honestly, if you didn't know what it was, you'd see it as what it is: a strange and interesting photo of a natural organism.

That would be my point exactly. Glad you caught on.

I don't like to check out gross stuff, so I shouldn't read Neatorama? Ok! That makes sense.

This is almost equivalent to getting goatse'd

Though I do think the fact that he said there would be trouble studying human reproduction at a Catholic University is stupid and kind of offensive, the all-out Catholic post was a little much.

Anunsi's comments started out correctly - we are a combination of an egg and a seed, and not just the egg.

As for "reproducing" and "procreation", the difference is the amateur creators are doing it for the love of the sport; the pro creators do it for a living.

Hey religious nuts! Get over it.

Hey people who are grossed out! Get over it.

Hey everyone else! Isn't the human body cool!?

Let's have a contest to see who can come up with the most pointless semantic arguments. A semantic arguments contest. A argusematest!

Please don't post any more gross stuff on the front page, have people click through. Seriously.

cool pic though

And that's not that gross. In the exhibit, there's an ovary with a burst cyst on it. THAT is TERRYFYING thing to see, especially when you have had 3+.

This...is normal. And amazing.

wikipedia tells me that the human egg is 100 to 200 micrometers in diameter.

200 micrometers is 0.02 milimeters, or 0.007874 inches. (thanks, Internets)

but yeah, human eggs look a lot like caviar. perhaps less gamey tasting, though. i'll never know.

the bbc article has more info, and it will tickle your anglophilic tendencies. full stop.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7447942.stm

when the egg exits the follicle, it is "surrounded by a jelly-like substance containing cells. [so, that big yellow thing is its cushiony clothing, not just the egg]

The egg itself is only the size of a full-stop, and the whole ovary, which contains many immature eggs, just a couple of inches long."

That's rather fascinating though. I never thought of what ovulation actually looked like. Wow.