Animal sexual behavior is under-reported in general, I think. Do not forget to report!
Probably because a lot of it is real fucked up, and makes people uncomfortable.
Like female bedbugs not having vaginas and so males have a sharp penis and literally stab the females with it often resulting in death of the female, because it’s literally just an open wound.
Further, male angler fish only exist to find the female, touch her, get stuck to her, and get absorbed by her body until all that’s left is the testes, now absorbed by and part of the female. The female can hold multiple testes of multiple males inside of her and choose to self-impregnate whenever she chooses.
Don’t even get me started on felines and spiny penises so the female can’t escape once the male has entered.
Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.
Yeah I don’t spend my time reporting it because all it does is remind me how lucky I am to be human and be able to have a consensual, loving relationship with another human.
Like female bedbugs not having vaginas and so males have a sharp penis and literally stab the females with it often resulting in death of the female, because it’s literally just an open wound.
Is it bad that part of me is like “GOOD!” because, “fuck bed bugs!”?
I think the point is, human discomfort shouldn’t play a role in scientific reporting. Humans have projected a lot of human social elements (sex and gender roles, etc) onto animals and called it science, but it’s not objective. If we are self censoring, we can’t effectively share knowledge with others and we might miss important things down the line.
Like a huge amount of animal sex is rape.
Female garter snakes at the Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba would agree.
The issue with finding homosexual behaviour in animals is that it’s never exclusive. Homosexual animals tend to be bisexual at best, and can often be chalked up to erroneous mating.
A lot of these studies are used to validate human homosexuality and harm the “it’s unnatural!” argument touted by conservatives. However using a Call to Nature is fallacious, and could be used to validate all number of animal behaviour.
Never is a strong word when that’s just not true
An animal model of spontaneous exclusive homosexuality has however been described in sheep. About 8% of the males in a population studied in the western United States were shown to mate exclusively with other males, even when the choice was given between a male or female partner (Perkins and Roselli, 2007; Roselli et al., 2011b).
Huh, wasn’t aware of that. Well, after a bit more research, excluding that one species in that one study, there are no exclusively homosexual animals.
I’m guessing most animal behaviorists have priorities other than watching who is fucking whom. Unless we’re talking long-term bonding pairs, which are much easier to observe, but those are not the norm in the animal kingdom.
Almost there! Just one more step left on the Gay Agenda:
✔️ look cute
✔️ be gay
✔️ hang out with friends
✔️ make memes
✔️ trick wise protectors of heterosexuality into accepting gay animals
◻️ be treated with decency by society
The very idea of sexuality being divisible into distinct types is a uniquely human construct.
Animals don’t think “I’m gonna go find another dude to have gay sex with,” they just get the urge and act on it with whoever looks good nearby.
Animals don’t think “I’m gonna go find another dude to have gay sex with,” they just get the urge and act on it with whoever looks good nearby.
Several animal species are famously monogamous, penguns for example.
That doesn’t explain why the same couples keep coming back to each other season after season.
