1,500+ Animal Species Engage in Gay Sexual Activity

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An interesting article in today's New York Times. Some highlights:

In more than 1,500 animal species, from crickets and sea urchins to bottlenose dolphins and bonobos, scientists have observed sexual encounters between members of the same sex.

Some researchers have proposed that this behavior has existed since the dawn of the animal kingdom. But the authors of a new study of thousands of mammalian species paint a different picture, arguing that same-sex sexual behavior evolved when mammals started living in social groups. Although the behavior does not produce offspring to carry on the animals’ genes, it could offer other evolutionary advantages, such as smoothing over conflicts, the researchers proposed.

Males and females were about equally likely to be observed carrying out same-sex sexual behavior, the analysis showed. In some species, only one sex did. But in still others — including cheetahs and white-tailed deer — both males and females engaged in same-sex sexual behavior.


The complete article:
https://archive.ph/ziKzi

So next time a reactionary tells you that same-sex bonking is "unnatural," show them this article.
 
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I like to stay away from the "it's natural" arguments altogether, and revolve more around human moral objectivity....only because what's just as natural, if not more so than homoerotic behavior, is rape, cannibalism, even infanticide. We shouldn't be looking at cues from the natural world in our collective treatment of LGBT folk, because we definitely wouldn't want to be following the cues of how we should approach say, single mothers.
 
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The universe is a natural event so everything that happens within it is natural--the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful--including our moral and ethical value judgments about them.

Here in the west by far and away those who say same sex is unnatural belong to an Abrahamic faith (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Remind them that their all male, woman-hating, pro-slavery, pro-war, pro-genocide Iron Age warrior god is the same god all 19 hijackers invoked when crashing jet liners on 9/11/2001.

Then say, "Congratulations. This is what you get with religion."