Bisexual Species
Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom - Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival (Scientific American, July 10 2008)
"same-sex couplings are surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom (...) individual animals generally cannot be classified as gay or straight: an animal that engages in a same-sex flirtation or partnership does not necessarily shun heterosexual encounters. (...) animals may engage in same-sex couplings to diffuse social tensions, to better protect their young or to maintain fecundity when opposite-sex partners are unavailable—or simply because it is fun. These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals"
“[In humans] the categories of gay and straight are socially constructed"
-> so humans are all - to various degrees - bisexual? Could very well be true.
"same-sex couplings are surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom (...) individual animals generally cannot be classified as gay or straight: an animal that engages in a same-sex flirtation or partnership does not necessarily shun heterosexual encounters. (...) animals may engage in same-sex couplings to diffuse social tensions, to better protect their young or to maintain fecundity when opposite-sex partners are unavailable—or simply because it is fun. These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals"
“[In humans] the categories of gay and straight are socially constructed"
-> so humans are all - to various degrees - bisexual? Could very well be true.
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These findings are in line with the research that was recently posted here by dag:
http://gay.videosift.com/talk/Wow-this-is-What-Ive-Been-Saying-all-Along
about: "Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=8772014
... Lord knows if I ever met the bloke I'd give that Johnny Depp a handshake with a bit more of a squeeze than my usual.
(made myself laugh
I feel that I am a good representation of a human.
I am bi, probably for all the same reasons that animals are.
(Maybe because as a human I am also an animal?)
I also find that it does diffuse social tensions.
My experiments are purely scientific, of course.
The conclusion I have come to after many years of these scientific experiments is that yes, given the right non-constrictive freeing environment, all humans are bi-sexual. There, I proved it.
oh, and you misspelled "bisexual" in the title...fyi
^I set it straight;)
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