Posted on 08/19/2013 9:30:16 AM PDT by Renfield
Insect sex may seem fairly simple: fluttering dances, clasping abdomens, a quick mount on a forest floor. But a new review of homosexual insect encounters suggests the acts may not be that straightforward for the individuals involved.
Researchers have widely examined homosexual behavior in mammals and birds, but have addressed it less frequently in insects and spiders. To assess the range of evolutionary explanations for same-sex intercourse in the invertebrate world, a team of biologists from Tel Aviv University in Israel examined roughly 100 existing studies on the topic and compiled the first comprehensive review of homosexuality in invertebrates. The review was published earlier this month in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
The team focused on male-male interactions to simplify the analysis, and found that most of these encounters occurred as accidents. Whereas larger animals have developed more complicated homosexual motivations — like maintaining alliances, which has been found in certain primate and seagull species — insects seem to mistakenly partake in it in a hasty attempt to secure mates. [Gay Animals: Alternate Lifestyles in the Wild]....
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So its an accident, not an orientation. Statists would like us to start comparing ourselves to insects because that’s all we are to them. Yahoo news should now be called homosexual news.
I really doubt that female beetles are consciously thinking “Oh if I get on another female beetle then the guys will come after me more”. It is probably simple. Where there are two females the pheromones will be stronger drawing more male beetles. I wish scientists would not ascribe intent to creatures that are mostly instinctual. However this affirms once again that when homosexuality occurs in nature it is usually to encourage heterosexual mating not produce life long homosexual and thus genetically dead end relationships. Alpha male primates sometimes force smaller males to submit to being mounted as a way of forcing them into a submissive role and deny them access to females. This could explain why young men who are sexually abused have a higher tendency towards homosexuality and other extra-heterosexual sexual behaviors.
Homosexuality is just not very smart. Incidental homosexuality such as found in constrained environments like prisons and boarding schools is one thing but life long homosexual commitments are the most damaging to an organism because they arrest sexual maturation and reproduction. Gay males are several degrees of magnitude more promiscuous than their heterosexual counterparts which I believe stems from the arrested sexual maturation. Also I wouldn’t be surprised to find that levels of oxytocin and vasopressin are out of whack and some studies have found exactly that in victims of sexual abuse.
http://pmbcii.psy.cmu.edu/events/20100415/Heim%20et%20al%20Mol%20Psychiatry%202009.pdf
The whole gay thing is not single faceted but ultimately in human beings we can be more than our desires and choose not to act on them or find ways to express ourselves sexually in ways that may not align with our every fantasy but are still fulfilling.
BTW In Fruit flies gayness can be turned off and on with drugs.
http://www.reuniting.info/node/2251
Hmmm
Insects have gay sex,
Homosexuals have gay sex,
Homosexuals are insects?
Anyone who has ever worked with animals knows that animals do not use sight for breeding purposes. When an female animal goes into estrus she releases a scent that brings the males of that species.
Now, how do human males release such a scent to bring on the other males? They don’t! How do human females release a scent to bring other females? They don’t.
Only humans use sight. If they used smell then PLAYBOY would only have to place a scratch and sniff card for a centerfold.
keyboard spew alert
Yeah....as we all know, insects obsess about their sexual orientation.
Honestly, who is the mental midget that writes these things?
Brilliant.
Easy answer. It’s pack dominance behavior.
Some are.............
Why, to rationalize human behavior, of course!
You know no cockroaches??
I’ve known several personally, and I would prefer a real cobra in my bed to the further company of any of them.
Guinness for Strength!
Dear Ms. Hefner, about those lagging sales; I think I may have an idea ...
How much did this worthless study cost taxpayers?
Heard the same joke, except it was a little boy visiting his grampa’s farm in TX. The punchline was “Well, my Daddy says that sh*t may fly in San Francisco, but it don’t go around here!”
Fruit fly PING
Flies and dogs eat sH1t as well. Doesn’t mean that the animal kingdom is wise or civilized.
I wonder who pays for “researches” like that? No surprise there aren’t a manned space program these days as long as a science is all about gay insects today.
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