Contents:
- BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
- CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- US EPISPAL PRIMATE: EMBRACG GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ IS ‘WHO WE ARE’
BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
In a survey by our Homoid Psychology Rearch Group survey, only 15 percent of people who had the hight level of tn (universy) knew that bonobos are great ap. But the bate over whether gay marriage, or any other non-reproductive sexual relatnship, is "natural, " no other animal holds more importance. 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. 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.
All the speci, however, may be assigned to one of six major groupgs or superfai of the Orr Primat: the lemurs of Madagasr (Lemuroia), the galagos and loris of Ai and Asia (Lorisoia), the tarsiers of SE Asia (Tarsia), New World monkeys (Ceboia), Old World monkeys (Cerpheia) and the ap and humans (Homoia). Gee Gaylord Simpson (1945) divid the Orr Primat to two suborrs: the Prosimii (lemurs, loris, galagos and tarsiers) and the Anthropoia (monkeys, ap and humans).
CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
Homosexual behavr is fed as genal ntact, genal manipulatn or both between same-sex dividuals. The majory of the 33 speci that monstrate homosexual behavr do so rarefy, but for a substantial number (N =12) appears to be a more mon pattern unr ee-rangg ndns.
I summarize data on homosexual behavr as relat to form, livg ndn, age, sex, social anizatn, and elogil ntext, and discs hormonal, mographic, and socsexual theori for primate homosexual behavr.
Prenatal excs of androgens may have some effect on the exprsn of female homosexual behavr, but the effects might vary over the life span, and data are equivol at prent. Demographic procs that rult skewed sex rats n favor the exprsn of homosexual behavr a populatn, which traspecific variatn. I suggt exaptatn as a theoretil amework for terpretg homosexual behavr and nclu that future nsiratn of sexual selectn among primat should addrs homosexual ponents of this procs.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
CatnReceived: 01 December 1993Accepted: 05 January 1994Published: 01 April 1995Issue Date: April 1995DOI: wordshomosexual behavrsocsexual behavrhormonmographyexaptatn. Those that voice opposn to acceptance of homosexualy on relig grounds often nsir homosexualy to be “unnatural. 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. From April-December 2014, Lra Bia and lleagu observed three separate stanc of homosexual behavr between male spir monkeys.
HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
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.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Nohels, is possible that other animals vary their sire for homosexual vers heterosexual behavrs and partners. 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. The last remag py was recently unearthed providg valuable sights to animal homosexualy rearch.
But forays to animal homosexualy rearch long predate Levick, wh observatns published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s.
US EPISPAL PRIMATE: EMBRACG GAY ‘MARRIAGE’ IS ‘WHO WE ARE’
More than 200 years later, rearch has moved past some of the taboos those early rearchers faced and shown that homosexualy is much more mon than prevly thought. Homosexualy is wispread, wh bisexualy even more prevalent across speci.
Rearchers are now gog beyond jt observg though, wh rearchers at Imperial leadg the way unravellg how, and why, homosexualy is found across nature.