Posted on 10/15/2008 10:53:13 AM PDT by BGHater
True statement - I admired her for reporting it - she could have easily let those clips hit the cutting room floor. And she has done amazing work in documenting chimpanzee behavior.
Just like welfare recipients...................
Kill them, Kill them all /sarc
The apes have spent too much time watching the UN Peace Troops in Congo.
” rarely reach climax in these situations”
Which means its not sexual at all. Sexual behavior = reproductive behavior.
I nursed him, and raised him, and he continued to grow!
then what would you call bare genital rubbing and oral contact? a friendly hello? these are sex organs. contact between them is sexual. and thankfully, not all sexual contact leads to reproduction.
Going into the jungle and getting @#$%^& by a chimp doesn't strike me as very loving.
“a friendly hello? “
Exactly, the purpose of the behavior in not sexual therefore it is not a sexual behavior. (example: foreign men will kiss each other but it is not a sexual behavior) As you point out, the animals aren’t even trying to have sex. Animals use many similar behaviors to express dominance, group cohesion, territoriality. Liberals love to pronounce that these are sexual behaviors because they want to believe the human abnormal sexual behaviors (i.e homosexuality) are normal.
Ping!
Most primates have hunted, killed and eaten other primates. Animal Planet/Disc. Channel have countless stories with video of Chimps doing this. Gorillas as well. Bonobos should come as no surprise- well, unless you’re a goofy lefty who takes his social cues and morals from the animal kingdom. IOW, San Francisco.
if the law calls the conduct sexual, i will too. no climax necessary.
That’s the point. Animals aren’t human and each species has it own behavioral norms. Evaluating their behavior by human parameters produces the wacky notions that they “use” sex .
"Animals use many similar behaviors to express dominance, group cohesion, territoriality"
i am not trying to be difficult and i see your argument. my only point is that while humans and chimps use similar behaviors for different reasons, they use them nonetheless.
but humans use sex for more than simple procreation. the whole thing is a circular argument, imho.
I guess I should have said similar “looking” behaviors. I wasn’t comparing human behavior to animals only one behavior to another within a species. That was what the example of human kisses was. It can be a sexual behavior or it can be a greeting behavior. Biting in humans is always aggressive or defensive behavior but in animals it can mean affection or it can even be sexual behavior.
Looking at it another way because biting may be sexual in animals doesn’t mean it is also sexual in people.
How speciesist.
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