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gay critters
Mar. 16th, 2008 01:52 pmhttp://www.livescience.com/animals/061116_homosexual_animals.html
Good article, both because it discusses the variety (that is, a sampling of many species) that engage in same sex behavior, and because it mentions how the imposition of homosexual/heterosexual as categories is artificial, and talks about how many scientists don't do the research because they don't even want to be associated with anything smacking of homosexuality (my rephrase ;-) ). Which I find sad.
I also find it sad that the 'findings' in this article are supposed to be somehow new. For decades now, assorted sciences have discussed the many uses of non-reproductive sex (heck this article doesn't even get to all of the proposed uses, though I celebrate that it mentions pleasure!), as well as variety of behavior and yes gasp intersex/hemaphrodite in the animal kingdom. I am very happy to have this info passed on. That it's 'new' again speaks about the lack of biological science info everywhere, mostly because of the we-dare-not-talk-about-it stigma. Sad again. To say the least.
Good article, both because it discusses the variety (that is, a sampling of many species) that engage in same sex behavior, and because it mentions how the imposition of homosexual/heterosexual as categories is artificial, and talks about how many scientists don't do the research because they don't even want to be associated with anything smacking of homosexuality (my rephrase ;-) ). Which I find sad.
I also find it sad that the 'findings' in this article are supposed to be somehow new. For decades now, assorted sciences have discussed the many uses of non-reproductive sex (heck this article doesn't even get to all of the proposed uses, though I celebrate that it mentions pleasure!), as well as variety of behavior and yes gasp intersex/hemaphrodite in the animal kingdom. I am very happy to have this info passed on. That it's 'new' again speaks about the lack of biological science info everywhere, mostly because of the we-dare-not-talk-about-it stigma. Sad again. To say the least.
