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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 10:50 PM
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Homosexuality -- unnatural behavior?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
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personman Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:05 PM
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1. Awesome. K&R nt
Edited on Thu Aug-18-11 11:07 PM by personman
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:31 PM
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2. I have a homosexual male cat. He is always pestering and trying to hump my other male cat,
who cries pitifully and slinks away, much aggrieved.

What makes it especially bizarre is that the gay one, in addition to being neutered, doesn't have any external genitalia whatsoever since he had to have a perineal urethrostomy several years ago. Go figure.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:15 AM
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4. Check out "Cry to Heaven" by Anne Rice.
She writes about eunuchs and castrati having sex. They are said to have had sex often.
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solara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-11 11:55 PM
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3. Excellent
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:21 AM
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5. If god did not want gays and lesbians she would not have created them
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:30 AM
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6. I have always liked to believe in "to each his own" and the 60s
idea that we all march to different drums. And that there is nothing unnatural about either.
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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:33 AM
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7. There is nothing unnatural in the way
I adore, love and cherish my lover.

That I ravish her and she ravishes me is completely beyond the point.
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:33 AM
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8. Not true - Baghemil's book Biological Exuberance documents gay-bashing male deer in Texas. Really.
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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:37 AM
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10. Well when the deer
that are getting gay bashed get a clue, they will kick the shit out of the ones that are causing trouble. I grew up in New Orleans. I saw a humongous gay guy come out of the Bourbon Street Pub, beat the shit out of a guy screaming "faggots" and then stuff him back in his truck. He poured me (a little gay girl) a drink afterwards, and I learned that I should NEVER be afraid of bigots and bashers.
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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 06:59 AM
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12. I like that story.
When I was about 12, a neighbor girl called my mom a dyke. I went bananas even though I didn't quite know what the word meant, and gave her a couple of good punches. I was grounded for a week (which was astonishing considering how strict my mom was), but my sentence was commuted a day or so later.
My mom learned a valuable lesson: she raised a daughter who was an unquestioning defender of her right to love who she wanted.
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:51 AM
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14. I sure hope so. I just thought the story was too good to pass up.
He also documents in the same book that pairs of gay male swans are the most successful "breeders". They adopt chicks, and are able to successfully defend a larger territory (i.e.beat up gay-bashers) than heterosexual swan couples.

It's a real world, with lots of fascinating complications. And there's no "moralism" to it whatsoever, no sky god telling cows not to eat grass and bunny rabbits not to have sex.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 07:11 PM
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20. I could only find one allusion to that online and that had no more detail...
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...than your post. He apparently is the only researcher to report this (though
he DID study 300 different species) -- I'd really like to see what caused him
to positively ID the behavior as "gay-bashing".
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 12:34 AM
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9. It's nature. (n/t)
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 05:16 AM
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11. Good one!
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 08:02 AM
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13. my female goats have been mounting each other. A LOT.
There are some boys in the herd but a few of the females prefer each other. Go figure.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:55 AM
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15. It's just a perfectly normal variation of sexuality
that has been around forever and, as MFM points out, in far more species than humans alone.

So why can't people just accept that FACT and go on with their lives? Idiots.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 11:56 AM
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16. K&R - nt
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 01:04 PM
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17. It's unnatural to tell a bone which way to point and when.
It wastes your time and annoys the bone.

It's fuckin' nuts too.

Something. Whatever.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 02:53 PM
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18. Only one species has religion
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Dystopian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-11 05:11 PM
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19. KandR
Thank you.


peace~
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