Right? Well, apparently it helps keep the machine running, so I guess we shouldn't complain too much. Even if we don't want to look to closely.
By the way, I was at the herp vet having that particular conversation for exactly the same reason--I wasn't sure if my 2007 het lavender female was actually a FEMALE. Sometimes when you pop females, you see the everted cloacal "horns", and I didn't know that those weren't hemipenes... and then there was the discharge. So I'd taken her in to have her probed and examined by an expert.