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Male Monkeys 'Pay' Females for Sex, Study Finds
fox news ^
| 1/3/2007
| fox news
Posted on 01/03/2008 7:26:54 AM PST by tobyhill
Mating may be a natural instinct, but monkey business doesn't come free for male macaques who have to "pay" females for their affections, the AFP reported Wednesday.
According to the report, a study of the primates conducted by Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found that the male monkeys must first groom the female before she will permit sex. The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female, the study found.
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To: Clint N. Suhks
I'll have you know a true lady's favors cannot be bought, even with diamonds (unless they're a minimum 3ct with VS1 clarity and F color . . . ).
To: ClearCase_guy
To: tobyhill
I think the researchers might be projecting here. They do not know what the monkeys are thinking - they could have just as well concluded that the males wanted to groom the females and the females demanded sex after as a means of currency. Or that grooming is a form of foreplay that builds the intimacy and trust culminated in sex or that even monkeys don’t want a skanky mate.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:39:56 AM PST
by
DaveyB
(Ignorance is part of the human condition - atheism makes it permanent!)
To: tobyhill
In 2008 fox news makes an astounding discovery that somehow had eluded mankind for thousands of years.
Animals have courtship rituals. If only Aesop had known that.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:40:35 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck is the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aren't going.)
To: tobyhill; Squantos; Eaker; Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I’ll be more impressed when the monkeys learn that you aren’t paying for the sex, you are paying for the girl to leave afterward.
To: tobyhill
So now foreplay equals payment?
I'm not buying it!
</pun>
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:41:10 AM PST
by
Fixit
To: tobyhill
Male primates paying for sexual favors - why did they need to do a study on this so obvious a fact.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:41:46 AM PST
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: tobyhill
” The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female, the study found.”
do these morons actually get paid for reports like that?
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:42:12 AM PST
by
sure_fine
(• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
To: Southerngl
It's called foreplay...
Scientists "prove" what they want to prove. Then another scientist steps us to disprove what the first scientist "proved".
Hell, we're still working Einstein over!!
It's called "Grant Money".
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:43:28 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: Wil H
The most expensive sex you ever have is the sex you dont have to pay for "Johns don't pay prostitutes for sex, they pay them to leave."
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:43:37 AM PST
by
Polybius
To: MrEdd
I would groom some of the info babes at Fox.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:44:02 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
VS1? If you can’t see the flaw with the naked eye you can splurge on the color.
Forget “F”, go for SI1 “D”! Tis more sparkly...
To: Polybius
To: sure_fine
I believe they “proved” the same thing with Penguins and their pebble offering.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:45:12 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: tobyhill; EveningStar; agent_delta
Everything has its price.
To: TheThirdRuffian
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:45:54 AM PST
by
woollyone
(entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
To: Larry Lucido
ROTFLMAO! That is too funny.
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:46:24 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
SOunds more like obligatory foreplay than payment to me.
To: tobyhill
SOunds more like obligatory foreplay than payment to me.
To: DaveyB
Perhaps the males were grooming the females as a service, for which the payment was sex afterwards. :-)
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posted on
01/03/2008 7:48:25 AM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
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