How do the fact that there are gay/homosexual animals impact the ia that homosexualy is a s? If animals are sometim homosexual, don’t that mean homosexualy is natural?
Contents:
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas. Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals. Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports.
A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse.
” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc. Therefore, aversn to homosexual sex would have had to specifilly arise over the history of life, which this team of rearchers fds unlikely, sce the opportuny st of same-sex sex is relatively low.
The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal.
HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
Vasey and his team methodilly tted the var theori that have been proposed for the persistence of homosexual sex the monkeys: that the femal were exprsg domance; that they were barterg for parental re; that they were rencilg after a fight; or (my personal favore) that they were stagg sexual enunters to exce nearby mal, what I’d ll the “you wish, guys” theory of monkey lbianism. Sodomy laws stayed on the books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led them unnstutnal — aid by an amic brief cg the rearch that had e out the meantime documentg homosexual activy among might have known about the sheer diversy of animal sexualy a long time ago if we, as a culture, had managed to lower our blrs. However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans.
GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
On the other hand, bee female maqu will reproduce wh mal throughout their lifetime regardls of their tert homosexual behavr, the end the relatnships do not acce any st to lifetime reproductn.
Anyone engaged the most elementary animal observatn is forced to nclu that animal “homosexualy, ” “filici” and “nnibalism” are exceptns to normal animal behavr.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Although homosexual behavr is very mon the animal world, seems to be very unmon that dividual animals have a long-lastg predisposn to engage such behavr to the excln of heterosexual activi. Even blogist Bce Bagemihl, whose book Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy was ced by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn their amici curiae brief Lawrence v.
He stat: It seems possible that the study of sexual behavr animals, pecially non-human primat, will ntribute to the liberalizatn of relig attus toward homosexual activy and other forms of nonprocreative sex. Specifilly, the studi challenge one particular sense of the dogma that homosexual behavr is “agast nature”: the notn that is unique to those creatur who, by tastg the u of the tree of knowledge, have alone bee morally culpable. That blueprt, as bethicist Bto Maria Bti not, mt be sought man himself: It is a equent error for people to ntrast human and animal behavrs, as if the two were homogeno.
To Wtern science, homosexualy (both animal and human) is an anomaly, an unexpected behavr that above all requir some sort of “explanatn” or “e” or “ratnale.