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(Something to think about next time you watch "March of the Penguins". The urge to underline and editorialize was intense, but I resisted for readability's sake, but if you Literoticians can't come up with some good ones about “The cute little ones often lend a helping hand when they engage in oral sex with each other” or penquin masturbation, I'll be very disappointed.)
A Wild, and Gay, Kingdom
Oct. 24, 2006
Courtesy The Research Council of Norway
and World Science staff
For eons, nature has been prancing, fluttering and altogether teeming with gay animals, proclaim the organizers of the first museum exhibition on animal homosexuality.
Scientists have found homosexuality in nearly 1,500 species, said zoologist Petter Boeckman of the Norwegian Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, an exhibition co-organizer. The show, entitled “Against Nature’s Order?” is to run through next summer at the museum.
Boeckman said the project, drawing on several years of research by an array of biologists, proves gay sex is in fact part of nature’s order. His arguments echo the claim of gay rights advocates worldwide that in humans, too, homosexuality is natural.
Same-sex mating is especially common among herding animals, and often serves to resolve conflicts, Boeckman said.
“One fundamental premise in social debates has been that homosexuality is unnatural. This premise is wrong. Homosexuality is both common and highly essential in the lives of a number of species,” he said.
The best-known gay animal is the dwarf chimpanzee, or bonobo, one of humanity’s closest relatives. The whole species is bisexual: sex plays a glaring role in all their activities and defuses potential violence, Boekman argued, the usual method of solving conflicts among animals.
“Sex among dwarf chimpanzees is in fact the business of the whole family,” he remarked. “The cute little ones often lend a helping hand when they engage in oral sex with each other.”
Lions can also be homosexual, he argued: males often band together with brothers to lead the pride, and ensure loyalty by having sex with each other.
Homosexuality is common among dolphins and killer whales, he said; with them, male-female bonds are fleeting, whereas male-male pairings can last years. Gay sex between different species is not unusual either, he added. Meetings between different dolphin species can be violent, he said, but the tension is often broken by a “sex orgy.”
As a social phenomenon, homosexuality is most widespread among animals with a complex herd life, he continued.
Among apes, females create continuity within the group, he added; this social network is maintained not only by sharing food and child rearing, but through sex. “Among many of the female apes the sex organs swell up. So they rub their abdomens against each other,” Boeckman said, adding that animals have sex because they have the desire to, just like humans.
“We’re talking about everything from mammals to crabs and worms,” he continued. Some animals practice homosexual behaviour rarely, he elaborated; others, including bonobos, do it lifelong.
This occurs also among birds that pair with one partner for life, as geese and ducks do, he noted: four to five percent of the couples are homosexual, and single females will lay eggs in a homosexual pair’s nest. Homosexual couple often seem better at raising the young than heterosexual couples, he added.
In colonies of black-headed gulls, almost every tenth pair is lesbian, he said. It’s very possible for the lesbians to become impregnated, he added, though these individuals shouldn’t be considered bisexual.
“If a female has sex with a male one time, but thousands of times with another female, is she bisexual or homosexual?” he asked. This is much the same way as gay people often have children, he noted.
“Moreover, a part of the animal kingdom is hermaphroditic,” having both male and female sex organs, he noted. “For them, homosexual is not an issue.”
The theme of animal homosexuality, he said, “has long been taboo” among scientists, who often masquerade the touchy subject by giving it other names.
He cited one scientific description of mating among giraffes, in an area where nine in ten pairings occurred between males. “Every male that sniffed a female was reported as sex,” he said; but anal sex with orgasm between males was portrayed as a dominance, competitition or greeting behavior.
It’s time to start calling it what it is: sex, Boeckman insists.
“Many researchers have described homosexuality as something altogether different from sex. They must realise that animals can have sex with who they will, when they will and without consideration to a researcher’s ethical principles.”
Animals masturbate, too, he observed.
“There are plenty of animals who will masturbate when they have nothing better to do. Masturbation has been observed among primates, deer, killer whales and penguins… both males and females. They rub themselves against stones and roots. Orangutans are especially inventive. They make dildos of wood and bark.”
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061024_gay-animals.htm
A Wild, and Gay, Kingdom
Oct. 24, 2006
Courtesy The Research Council of Norway
and World Science staff
For eons, nature has been prancing, fluttering and altogether teeming with gay animals, proclaim the organizers of the first museum exhibition on animal homosexuality.
Scientists have found homosexuality in nearly 1,500 species, said zoologist Petter Boeckman of the Norwegian Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, an exhibition co-organizer. The show, entitled “Against Nature’s Order?” is to run through next summer at the museum.
Boeckman said the project, drawing on several years of research by an array of biologists, proves gay sex is in fact part of nature’s order. His arguments echo the claim of gay rights advocates worldwide that in humans, too, homosexuality is natural.
Same-sex mating is especially common among herding animals, and often serves to resolve conflicts, Boeckman said.
“One fundamental premise in social debates has been that homosexuality is unnatural. This premise is wrong. Homosexuality is both common and highly essential in the lives of a number of species,” he said.
The best-known gay animal is the dwarf chimpanzee, or bonobo, one of humanity’s closest relatives. The whole species is bisexual: sex plays a glaring role in all their activities and defuses potential violence, Boekman argued, the usual method of solving conflicts among animals.
“Sex among dwarf chimpanzees is in fact the business of the whole family,” he remarked. “The cute little ones often lend a helping hand when they engage in oral sex with each other.”
Lions can also be homosexual, he argued: males often band together with brothers to lead the pride, and ensure loyalty by having sex with each other.
Homosexuality is common among dolphins and killer whales, he said; with them, male-female bonds are fleeting, whereas male-male pairings can last years. Gay sex between different species is not unusual either, he added. Meetings between different dolphin species can be violent, he said, but the tension is often broken by a “sex orgy.”
As a social phenomenon, homosexuality is most widespread among animals with a complex herd life, he continued.
Among apes, females create continuity within the group, he added; this social network is maintained not only by sharing food and child rearing, but through sex. “Among many of the female apes the sex organs swell up. So they rub their abdomens against each other,” Boeckman said, adding that animals have sex because they have the desire to, just like humans.
“We’re talking about everything from mammals to crabs and worms,” he continued. Some animals practice homosexual behaviour rarely, he elaborated; others, including bonobos, do it lifelong.
This occurs also among birds that pair with one partner for life, as geese and ducks do, he noted: four to five percent of the couples are homosexual, and single females will lay eggs in a homosexual pair’s nest. Homosexual couple often seem better at raising the young than heterosexual couples, he added.
In colonies of black-headed gulls, almost every tenth pair is lesbian, he said. It’s very possible for the lesbians to become impregnated, he added, though these individuals shouldn’t be considered bisexual.
“If a female has sex with a male one time, but thousands of times with another female, is she bisexual or homosexual?” he asked. This is much the same way as gay people often have children, he noted.
“Moreover, a part of the animal kingdom is hermaphroditic,” having both male and female sex organs, he noted. “For them, homosexual is not an issue.”
The theme of animal homosexuality, he said, “has long been taboo” among scientists, who often masquerade the touchy subject by giving it other names.
He cited one scientific description of mating among giraffes, in an area where nine in ten pairings occurred between males. “Every male that sniffed a female was reported as sex,” he said; but anal sex with orgasm between males was portrayed as a dominance, competitition or greeting behavior.
It’s time to start calling it what it is: sex, Boeckman insists.
“Many researchers have described homosexuality as something altogether different from sex. They must realise that animals can have sex with who they will, when they will and without consideration to a researcher’s ethical principles.”
Animals masturbate, too, he observed.
“There are plenty of animals who will masturbate when they have nothing better to do. Masturbation has been observed among primates, deer, killer whales and penguins… both males and females. They rub themselves against stones and roots. Orangutans are especially inventive. They make dildos of wood and bark.”
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061024_gay-animals.htm
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