Not all the occupants are human. If it’s extremes of misogyny you’re looking for, then sex between big cats is a lulu: your male lion for example has a circle of spikes where humans have a foreskin, and if the lioness chooses to deny him (because no means no, right?) then the spikes exact excruciating pain upon the lady’s tender parts. The howls can be heard for miles around; indeed, your average safari guide in search of voyeuristic sex for the tourists just homes in on the screeches.

Misandry is equally common. After bonking the male praying mantis, in an act of deadly gratitude the female bites her partner’s head off and eats his brain. Marilyn Monroe’s third husband once confided to Laurence Olivier, “Larry, she consumes me”. O human race, Quo Vadis? Further up the food chain, those brazen hussy lady elephants tempt the bulls into camp, get themselves…