RE: How would you react to a gay person who found you TOTALLY repulsive ?
September 28, 2015 at 3:38 pm
(September 28, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Losty Wrote: TIL bonobo blow job....
The top video is regular chimpanzees, but the bottom two, about bonobos, are highly on-point, especially the bottom one.
If you want a really solid grasp of the "nature" of our closest living cousins on earth, the origins of morality and kindness and society/sexuality in humans, the bottom link is gold. It's a lot of information in a very short article, though I would strongly recommend you read Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, if you want an in-depth understanding.
Once you have (perhaps already) read it, you will find it hard not to laugh in the face of someone who tells you our "sinful" behaviors are "not natural". They're the ones who have it backward. Monogamous heterosexual mate pairing in primates is the unnatural act that we came up with, fairly recently in our evolutionary development. I think that's a good thing, but it's to our detriment that we don't recognize that it's not the only reproductive strategy, and that many humans are not neurologically cut out for that strategy. So for those who benefit from that strategy, for the purposes of breeding warriors and followers of the cult religion of that tribe, to say that it's the "only" strategy and everything else is "unnatural" and "sinful" is beyond laughable. It's sad, because it does a lot of harm to people who don't fit the program.
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