Contents:
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- ARE ANIMALS GAY? – FULL GUI TO HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals.
Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs.
Contrary to this le of thought, however, more recent terpretatns have qutned whether the paradox of animal ‘homosexualy’ is really a paradox at all. In s effort to prent homosexualy as normal, the homosexual movement1 turned to science an attempt to prove three major premis:.
ARE ANIMALS GAY? – FULL GUI TO HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS
Anyone engaged the most elementary animal observatn is forced to nclu that animal “homosexualy, ” “filici” and “nnibalism” are exceptns to normal animal behavr.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
4 At tim, the ternal or external stimuli affectg an animal’s stctive impuls rult s of animal “filici, ” “nnibalism” and “homosexualy. 7 Like bonobos, other animals will mount another of the same sex and engage seemgly “homosexual” behavr, although their motivatn may differ. 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.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Dpe the “homosexual” appearanc of some animal behavr, this behavr do not stem om a “homosexual” stct that is part of animal nature. 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. Simon LeVay entertas the hope that the unrstandg of animal “homosexualy” will help change societal mor and relig beliefs about homosexualy.
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.