Contents:
- CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
- TWO GAY MONKEYS
- GAY MONKEY
- GAY MEN ARE LG UP AS EARLY AS 2 A.M. FOR MONKEYPOX VACC. MANY LEAVE EMPTY-HAND
- BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
- GAY MEN NEED A SPECIFIC WARNG ABOUT MONKEYPOX
- MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
Homosexual behavur appears to be wispread among male maque monkeys the wild and the tra may be at least partially passed down gen om father to son.
MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
Savolaen has often qutned a popular belief known as the “Darwian paradox of homosexualy”, which impli that bee homosexual behavur don’t lead to reproductn, has no benef and any gen that promote should be elimated by natural selectn.
To vtigate homosexualy other primat, Savolaen and his lleagu cid to study a lony of 1700 wild rh maqu (Ma mulatta) on the Puerto Rin island of Cayo Santiago.
TWO GAY MONKEYS
“I am hopeful that we really are startg to move away om the antiquated ia that [homosexualy] animals is an evolutnary paradox or aberratn. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.
Those that voice opposn to acceptance of homosexualy on relig grounds often nsir homosexualy to be “unnatural. ” However, homosexual behavr is wispread across the animal kgdom.
GAY MONKEY
In addn to well-known exampl such as mammals and birds, homosexual behavrs occur reptil, amphibians, fish, and vertebrat. Among the primate orr, homosexual behavr is most equently observed bonobos.
Recent observatns of homosexual behavr male spir monkeys adds to our knowledge of the behavrs and may help answer qutns about the evolutnary functns homosexual behavrs may play, as well as allow to nsir if other animals have sexual orientatns siar to the inti that humans nstct.
GAY MEN ARE LG UP AS EARLY AS 2 A.M. FOR MONKEYPOX VACC. MANY LEAVE EMPTY-HAND
From April-December 2014, Lra Bia and lleagu observed three separate stanc of homosexual behavr between male spir monkeys. Although is difficult to draw nclns om such few observatns, Bia and lleagu nsir how the behavrs f wh two petg hypoth for homosexual behavr: the 1) regulatn of social relatnships hypothis and 2) the tensn-regulatn hypothis.
Such hypoth, rived om rearch on baboons and bonobos, suggt that homosexual behavrs may eher be a means of strengtheng allianc or fg a tense suatn. Do this mean TU is gay or bisexual? Nohels, is possible that other animals vary their sire for homosexual vers heterosexual behavrs and partners.
BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
Most studi of homosexual behavr animals suggt that is a flexible rponse to social or mographic ndns, rather than emergg om dividual orientatns. While poor TU may be a b isolated his preference for mal among his spir monkey brethren, at least he do not experience the prejudic that gay humans experience.
GAY MEN NEED A SPECIFIC WARNG ABOUT MONKEYPOX
Homosexual behavr between male spir monkeys (Atel geofoyi). "Unfortunately, there is still a belief amongst some people that same-sex behavr is 'unnatural, ' and some untri sadly still enforce the ath penalty for homosexualy, " Savolaen said the statement.
Any attempt at unrstandg human homosexualy mt also clu a thorough analysis of same-sex sexual behavur the other primat. In this chapter I firstly nsir homosexual behavur as appli to the non-human primat.
MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
This parative approach may help to better unrstand those aspects of human homosexualy that are unique and those that are shared wh our clost livg relativ.