"It's Unnatural" Quote of the Day
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"Homosexuality has been documented in almost 500 species of animals, signaling that sexual preference is predetermined."
--Gay Animals: Alternative Lifestyles in the Wild
And it's not like researchers are intentionally seeking out same-sex activities in animals — they pretty much stumble across it while studying the animals in other contexts, so the number is undoubtedly much higher.
Also interesting is the fact that same-sex encounters in animals appear to be widespread among females. That thought hadn't occurred to me. There's a fashionable theory these days that male homosexuality is determined in the womb as a sort of immune response by the mother: the female womb simply does not like having a male fetus in it and alters the hormonal mix in the womb as a defense mechanism. This is evidenced, supposedly, by a statistical tendency of gay males to have older brothers: the mother's system "turns up the anti-male volume" the second time around, which makes it more likely that the embryo will develop gay.
Cute theory — but how does it explain lesbians?
Anyway, check out all the cute gay critters — especially the cock-of-the-rock (don't look at me that way, I'm just a reporter).
--Gay Animals: Alternative Lifestyles in the Wild
And it's not like researchers are intentionally seeking out same-sex activities in animals — they pretty much stumble across it while studying the animals in other contexts, so the number is undoubtedly much higher.
Also interesting is the fact that same-sex encounters in animals appear to be widespread among females. That thought hadn't occurred to me. There's a fashionable theory these days that male homosexuality is determined in the womb as a sort of immune response by the mother: the female womb simply does not like having a male fetus in it and alters the hormonal mix in the womb as a defense mechanism. This is evidenced, supposedly, by a statistical tendency of gay males to have older brothers: the mother's system "turns up the anti-male volume" the second time around, which makes it more likely that the embryo will develop gay.
Cute theory — but how does it explain lesbians?
Anyway, check out all the cute gay critters — especially the cock-of-the-rock (don't look at me that way, I'm just a reporter).
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