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
BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
Unlike chimps, bonobos are naturally bisexual—and happily engage homosexual acts for enjoyment, to solve nflicts, and to get ahead the tribe.
One of the big arguments put forward agast homosexualy is that ’s unnatural, a viatn of the human md.
Acrdg to Natnal Geographic, around 75 percent of bonobo sex is non-reproductive—and that clus an enormo amount of homosexual uplgs. Now, jt bee bonobos are remarkably progrsive where homosexualy is ncerned don’t mean their behavr translat to humans. 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.
CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
While few animals are exclively “gay” or “lbian, ” an extraordary number, appears, engage some form of same-sex relatns.
Christian theologians have long poted to the absence of animal homosexualy as evince that humans oughtn’t to be dog , eher.