I see what you're getting at. My family is always asking me what I'm going to be giving to them in my will because my pets are going to kill me some day. I only keep ball pythons, by the way. They don't seem to grasp the concept that a 5 foot snake won't be able to kill me.
As for the women being freaked out by snakes, I find that in the older population it's the women that are more frightened, but in the younger generations I've noticed that there are a lot more guys that are afraid (like my really beast friend, 200 lbs of muscle, and blanches at the sight of a 5 month old bp) and more girls are interested in them.
It's interesting how the phenomenon reverses itself in time.
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