M.Dancer Posted October 20, 2006 Report Posted October 20, 2006 I'm just stating the obvious. So yes, homosexuality is not normal behaviour Because it appears not to be biologicaly normal doesn't make it sociologically abnormal. But is reproductionthe limus test of biologically normal? Consider the Bonobo chimapanzees who engage in sex (all kinds of sex, 24 hours a day sex...dirty sweating monkey sex) as a social bonding exercise. The species is best characterized as female-centered and egalitarian and as one that substitutes sex for aggression. Whereas in most other species sexual behavior is a fairly distinct category, in the bonobo it is part and parcel of social relations--and not just between males and females. Bonobos engage in sex in virtually every partner combination (although such contact among close family members may be suppressed). And sexual interactions occur more often among bonobos than among other primates. Despite the frequency of sex, the bonobo's rate of reproduction in the wild is about the same as that of the chimpanzee. A female gives birth to a single infant at intervals of between five and six years. So bonobos share at least one very important characteristic with our own species, namely, a partial separation between sex and reproduction. http://www.brembs.net/bonobos.html Quote RIGHT of SOME, LEFT of OTHERS If it is a choice between them and us, I choose us
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