Homosexuality in the Animal Kingdom.
The straight world has finally run out of logical reasons to sustain its discrimination of homosexuals. Increasingly, anyone who raises the usual religious, legal, or psychoanalytic arguments against why same-sex fucking is immoral, illegal, or abnormal will have to stress their hang-ups with a whisper. The intelligent literature that has emerged in the past 20 years have spun traditional anti-gay arguments on their heads, using the very same premises these arguments are based on to reveal their misleading, illogical, and ultimately bigoted assumptions.
National Geographic’s recent documentary on animal relationships, by summarizing old and new findings the scientific community would’ve preferred to keep in its closet, exposes yet another attack on heterosexuality,. The importance of a “scientific” discovery of homosexual relationships in animals cannot be undermined. From the moment we are born, whether we have dicks or pussies determines whether we will wear blue or pink, whether we will play with guns or dolls, whether we will be socialized to become aggressive men or passive women. Our (Christian) god is straight, and so were Adam and Eve. Anyone who thinks or does otherwise is doomed, really. The consequences of being different are profound and painful, for everywhere you turn you are reminded of society’s systematic rejection of your existence.
Indeed, the discovery of homosexual animals – taken together with the rich arguments for homosexuality -- threaten to revolutionize everything the straight world has held dear since as far back as we can remember. The way we have ordered and arranged the world is bound to change. It is the dawning of a new age.
Note that we call the animals “homosexuals” (having sex with the same sex) and not “gay” (which embodies cultural, emotional, and social aspects of the human species). But as we climb the animal-intelligence ladder (with humans on top), however, simple homosexuality evolves into some form of sensual ‘gayness”. Allow me to take you through interesting examples to illustrate this point.
Ducks
We begin with ducks. During mating season, guzzlings start to pair off, where we find some ducks doing the usual heterosexual pairing. However, scientists discovered some male guzzlings pairing off with each other. These homosexual pairs then choose a female for both of them to mate with. Scientists have hypothesized that the male-male pairing before mating is to create a stronger defense against male ducks (while mating) and against predators (while the female is pregnant). However, these arguments become shaky after mother-duck gives birth and her offspring start to grow, because she leaves and the male-male bond stays.
Birds
In the bird community, homosexual pairing is likewise evident. Female-female pairs form during mating season, before choosing a male. In this set-up the male is simply a sperm donor, and it is the female (taking turns) who hunts for food when the chicks hatch. Scientists point to distorted estrogen levels, but no evidence has been found to support this. Moreover, if the female-female pairing were defective in some way, then evolution would’ve killed off this behavior instead of making it rather rampant.
Deep-sea Octopus
Homosexual fucking takes a dramatic twist when we turn from sky to sea. National Geographic was first excited with the prospect of having filmed a rarely seen deep-sea octopus. And as a plus, this octopus was filmed in the process of mating. When the scientists were reviewing their prized footage, they found something more surprising -- the deep sea octopus was mating with another male octopus. Twist # 2 was that the other male octopus was NOT a deep-sea octopus but of another species. Twist # 3 was that the other male octopus was over 4 times the other’s size!
Scientists tentatively concluded that since the deep-sea octopus is rare, sex is also a rare encounter and when he finds the opportunity to fuck, he seldom chooses who it is. But they agree that this conclusion is rather shaky and even hints at an overly rigid (heterosexual) interpretation of the discovery. Fact is, octopi are proven to be intelligent creatures, and if one guy didn’t want to fuck another, the one of them should’ve just swum away.
Fruit Fly
This common fruitfly, may be disgusting to us, but among its peers it is a slutty, sought-after creature. Frenzied male-male sex has been widely observed among fruitflies, so much so that when a group of homosexual fruitfiles were put in a container together, they formed a “chain”, each fly penetrating the one in front of him , and being penetrated by the fly on his back. When scientists tried to alter this behavior by injecting DNA to the homosexual fly’s genome, the only thing that changed was the fly’s ability to differentiate male from female fly. Still unable to surrentder their male-male attraction, the homosexual flies became bisexual.
Bottle-nose and Spotted Dolphins
Dolphins are known to be very intelligent, sensual, and sexual. Unknown to many, Bottle-nose and Spotted dolphins form male-male pairings that last a lifetime. These sensual creatures caress and stimulate each other frequently by putting their mouths over each other’s genitals, which strengthen their companionship further. Female dolphins join the male couples only during mating, but the couples are the only ones who demonstrate bodily affection to each other. This companionship is so strong that when one male dies, the remaining male wanders off until it finds another friendly pair. It then joins the pair and forms an oceanic three-some.
Japanese Macaque
One of the most interesting cases of homosexual activity among higher animals belongs to the Japanese Macaque species. Scientists observe exclusive female-female coupling in a many macaque groups, and have attempted to push forward hypotheses to explain this phenomenon.
Scientists first believed that there were inadequate males in the group, but immediate observation does not support this.
Then follows the next hypotheses -- Despite many males, were the males not sexually motivated? The answer is No. Males are always sexual.
Do females couple with each other to share parenting? No. Females are aggressive to another female’s young.
Are females coupling to attract males? No. Homosexual female pairs become violent when males approach them.
Does homosexual sex serve a social stratification function? No. In a female couple, there are no dominant vs. subordinate roles. Both are versatile.
Does the homosexual pairing follow some form of natural selection? No. The female does not choose to bond with the strongest females (unlike “lesbian” baboons, who do).
The only hypothesis left is that homosexual sex happens between female macaques because it is sexually pleasurable. And this is indeed a revolutionary statement to make! This hypothesis shifts the discussion to the existence of “gay” rather than simply “homosexual” animals. Moreover, it brings “pleasure” into the realm of animal behavior which has often been seen as being driven by a “function” and never by mere “pleasure”.
The “pleasure” hypothesis, if supported by further scientific scrutiny, will change the way we view animal evolution and human behavior. Life is hedonistic, and the heterosexuals who look down or discriminate other sexual arrangements (homosexuality, bisexuality, etc) are not only bigoted, but --- in this new scientific model – also selfish. Since pleasure is also cultural – and therefore “learned” – the new age might usher, paradoxically, our ancient selves where we were free to explore our bodies (masturbation) and someone else’s without being demonized by the crappy morality that has made us straight and very, very narrow.
