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Contents:

• ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY
• BILLNS OF SECTS ARE HAVG GAY SEX 'ACCINTALLY' SAY SCIENTISTS
• 5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
• GAY SPIR
• MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY SPIR-MAN FOR UPG SERI
• WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX

ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY

Many speci of sects and spirs engage homosexual behavr, like urtg, mountg, and tryg to mate wh members of the same sex.

Oliver Mart of ETH Zurich have found that homosexual behavr bugs is probably accintal most s. In birds and mammals, homosexual behavr has been shown to have evolutnary benefs.

In general there is no clear benef to homosexual behavr sects.

BILLNS OF SECTS ARE HAVG GAY SEX 'ACCINTALLY' SAY SCIENTISTS

Homosexual matg is at least as risky as the heterosexual kd, expendg sperm, wastg time that uld go toward other activi, and boostg the risk of jury, disease, and predatn. They expect homosexual behavr to be siarly stly. And yet, some speci, up to 85 percent of mal engage homosexual behavr.

5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY

Almost 80 percent of the s of homosexual behavr the rearchers appeared to be the rult of misintifitn or belated intifitn of genr. This explanatn is supported by the fact that many speci that exhib homosexual behavr also mate wh related speci or animate objects, like beer bottl—ditg a general tenncy toward misintifitn. "Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor, " says Dr.

To nfirm their theory, the rearchers plan to study the ndns that make homosexual behavr more or ls likely bugs. They also want to look more eply to male ristance to homosexual matg. Rearch fds that homosexualy sects and spirs is a se of mistaken inty (2013, October 21).

GAY SPIR

Rearchers believe homosexual behavr sects is accintal.

Acrdg to new rearch, sects that engage homosexual behavr are “not gay, jt nfed. As the rearchers expla, matg has some ser disadvantag, terms of energy spent as well as potential vulnerabily to predators, and homosexual behavr, such as urtg and mountg, would have the same disadvantag, such as jury, wh no evolutnary upsi as the sects would not be able to pass on their than lose out on a chance to reproduce, sects make mistak, say the rearchers. Homosexual behavr n be advantageo for some animals, cludg birds, as n lead to group velopment and practice, but the rearchers wanted to see if some of the theori explag sect homosexualy were accurate.

The rearchers say that some of the proposed theori clu homosexual practic to thwart predators or nfe potential suors, but upon studyg 110 speci of sects and spirs, the theori were quickly led 85 percent of the sect speci engaged homosexual behavr, the rearchers disvered this practice was due to nfn. Other evince, such as matg wh related speci, helped nfirme the nclns of the sects have not evolved to be more discrimate, the behavr uld be lked to other tras, wh Scharf explag, "Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor. " Further rearch uld terme possible factors that would crease the possibily of homosexual behavr.

MARVEL REVEALS FIRST GAY SPIR-MAN FOR UPG SERI

Sign up for a full digt of all the bt opns of the week our Voic Dispatch emailSign up to our ee weekly Voic newsletterIt’s all a se of mistaken inty, scientists rearchg the homosexual tennci of billns of sects have nclud. Scientists are now claimg the long observed practice of sects and spirs of the same sex matg is actually accintal, spe up to 85 per cent of male sects engagg homosexual acts. Instead the bugs are such a sh to reproduce - one of the strongt evolutnary driv - they do not take enough time to spect their potential mate’s genr, often leadg to same-sex llaborative study, published by Doctor Inon Scharf of Tel Aviv Universy and Doctor Oliver Mart of ETH Zurich Universy the journal of Behavural Elogy and Socblogy, found spirs and sects have not evolved to properly discrimate their matg reviewed past studi of 110 speci of male sects and spirs and found there is almost no evolutnary advantage to sect homosexualy, unlike birds and some mammals.

”In the study, rearchers propose that sect homosexual activy actually occurs bee mal rry pheromon om prev sexual activi wh other femal, and is this that may also attract a male sect to another male.

"Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor, " Dr Scharf add. tom holland, tobey maguire, andrew garfieldspirmenWhile homophob are by gettg mad at Tom Holland for havg a gay scene his current show The Crowd Room, they’re missg somethg important: he’s not the first Spir-Man actor to play gay.

WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX

In fact, Holland is followg a long and proud tradn of Spir-Man actors playg are some prev tim that actors who have played Peter Parker have crossed over to the other si and played gay characters movi, TV, and on Maguire - 'Wonr Boys'wonr boysThe first live-actn Spir-Man has played gay several tim his reer, both before and after playg Spir-Man. ) and the two have a torrid Maguire - 'Tropic Thunr'tropic thunrMaguire played gay aga 2008’s Tropic Thunr. In a fake trailer for an Osr-ba movie the film, Maguire plays himself, who is starrg a movie about two gay 18th Century monks lled Satan’s Alley.