Against Nature?

[ghytifrdnr]

This article came up on my local GLBT newsletter:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk:80/article/0,,7-2527347,00.html
It's kind of an eye opener.

[Azrael]

That's fuckin' awesome :bigrin:

Tucked away at the end of long and erudite texts, or consigned to footnotes and appendices, he found that homosexuality had been observed in no fewer than 1,500 species, and well documented in 500 of them.
Suck on that, James Dobson :P

[NorthBiEast]

It's about time!!!!
Dairy farmers actually use homosexual behavior to guage when to call the vet to come inseminate the cows. They stick a vial over her tail and when they see that it is broken (from being mounted in the pasture) it means she (or one of the others) is in heat. I have always wondered how those same farmers could possibly say it is "unnatural" for people to do it.
:2cents:

[spartca]

Here's another great book documenting the range of sexual orientational fluidity in animals:

http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Exuberance-Homosexuality-Natural-Diversity/dp/B0000DK4HI/sr=1-2/qid=1168048530/ref=sr_1_2/002-9179785-2252021?ie=UTF8&s=books

[JrzGuy3]

It's about time!!!!
Dairy farmers actually use homosexual behavior to guage when to call the vet to come inseminate the cows. They stick a vial over her tail and when they see that it is broken (from being mounted in the pasture) it means she (or one of the others) is in heat. I have always wondered how those same farmers could possibly say it is "unnatural" for people to do it.
:2cents:

Humm... this sounds like a description of male on female cowsex.

[JrzGuy3]

One further comment:

Against nature I feel is a grossly erroneous statement.

Not conducive to the success of a species I would very strongly stand behind.

[Long Duck Dong]

Humm... this sounds like a description of male on female cowsex.


yeah it does... until you realise that most farmers keep the cows and bulls seperate until its time for them to mate......therefore its a lil hard to be bull of cow sex, if there are no bulls in the padocks


Not conducive to the success of a species I would very strongly stand behind.

yeah its called nature..... and nature has a way of balancing things out.... lol bit like the human race ...lol
we never got overcrowding, from gays and lesbians.... we got it from heteros lol

[JrzGuy3]

yeah it does... until you realise that most farmers keep the cows and bulls seperate until its time for them to mate......therefore its a lil hard to be bull of cow sex, if there are no bulls in the padocks

Hm, so female cows will mount one another? Interesting. Any idea what the cause is? Pheromones? Usually homosexual activity in animals is the result of a male becoming aroused and needing relief and just not being picky about how he gets it, or who he gets it from. Lesbian sex in animals is new to me.

ex-Bio major!



yeah its called nature..... and nature has a way of balancing things out.... lol bit like the human race ...lol
we never got overcrowding, from gays and lesbians.... we got it from heteros lol

Yea, but this wouldn't illustrate that. It works the other way around. If something comes into existance that upsets harmony it will (1) crash the system it's within or (2) be unable to exist itself. I don't think we could coe up with a case of homosexuality being type 1 (I'm not saying it can't happen, I just can't come up with a scenario. If someone else can, then by all means...). Type 2 would be far more likely (a species which reproduces sexually goes entirely homosexual, nature out of balance, species ceases to exist (birth rate crashes)... harmony restored.

[ghytifrdnr]

[QUOTE=JrzGuy3]Hm, so female cows will mount one another? Interesting. Any idea what the cause is? Pheromones? Usually homosexual activity in animals is the result of a male becoming aroused and needing relief and just not being picky about how he gets it, or who he gets it from. Lesbian sex in animals is new to me.

ex-Bio major!


That is the problem with formal education; you only learn what others think you need to know.

Every country kid knows that cows will try to mount cows.

[element_of_wind]

Completely awesome.

I think Against Nature? is a wonderful title. It sums up the role of the exhibit in the sexuality debate perfectly.

[Chaia]

Excellent article! Thanks for sharing it! I would love to go to Norway and see the exhibition in person.

[canuckotter]

That is the problem with formal education; you only learn what others think you need to know.

Every country kid knows that cows will try to mount cows.
Yuppers. We only had a hobby farm so we didn't bother with any fancy vial thingie... We'd just keep an eye out the window to see when the cows were humping each other. :)

[CountryLover]

Born and raised on a dairy, lived country all my life - I've observed homosexual behavior in horses and cows from my earliest memories.

an ex bio major? You should have stuck with it longer - or gotten out into the field more ;-)