Animal Behavior - Same-sex and Gender-variant members of the Animal Kingdom

EnderD_503 · 03-14-2012, 05:35 PM

Of course same-sex relations (not "gay" or "homosexual," since the one is a 19th/early 20th century pathologisation of same-sex sex practices, and the other a social response to that pathologisation) are pretty normal within the majority of animal species. And "opposite-sex" sex. And any kind of sex you can imagine. Some sub-species of whiptail lizards are entirely "female" (another reason why the insistence on the "sex-binary" is bullshit), meaning it's pretty much impossible for "opposite sex" sex to even happen in their species.

People have invested so much into defining "heterosexual sex" as "natural sex" as though there could ever possibly be "unnatural sex."

03-14-2012, 05:35 PM	#3
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