jayleew said:
The subject is as the title states, "There is no evidence for heterosexuality in nature." Which, you have stated what nonsense it is.
Stated.....not proved!
jayleew said:
Due to the lack of homosexual evidence, heterosexuality was assumed.
The use of western word ‘homosexual’ is a perfect way to distort and misrepresent the truth about male sexuality and masculinity.
Anyways, there has never been any dearth of male bonding and intimacy in the wild. If scientists couldn’t see it half of the time it was because of their own biases, myths and foolishness.
E.g. for most scientists male sexual bonds = homosexuality = anal intercourse. And they consider only anal intercourse as a proof of male bonds. There is not likely to be a lot of that going on in the wild.
However, scientists are as much guilty of suppression of truth as of ignorance. For there has been a sea of evidence (and this willful suppression is documented now!) even within the myopic ‘homosexual’ view of male bonds taken by the scientists. There has been a systematic suppression of evidences. In fact the complex strategy adopted by the society to suppress evidences of male bonding whether amongst animals or human beings, can be a separate field of study on its own.
I remember an old programme on discovery channel where they showed two male raccoons that were just inseparable. They captured one of them and put it into a cage. The other raccoon risked his life and stayed outside the cage all night. The scientist couldn’t for the life of them understand this behaviour, but did not once suspect a romantic bond because the two had not indulged in anal intercourse.
jayleew said:
I would have never thought that we would need to look at animals to determine how humans should act.
The well-known Christian disdain of nature.
jayleew said:
Well, as far as marriage goes, three percent of mammals are monogomous.
Now that’s laughable. To talk of wedded animals is just as silly as to talk of ‘gay’ or ‘heterosexual’ animals. These are purely human concepts ----- nothing to do with animals.
jayleew said:
There was a good point that came up in this forum. That it cannot be proven at this time that nature is either heterosexual or homosexual.
Don’t try to lead away from the basic question. We are not talking about ‘homosexuality’. We are talking about heterosexuality and nature.
jayleew said:
...we can't get into the mind of the animal. We can only observe behavior. The research on bonobos was particularly interesting (indicating that the bonobos "got horny" for many reasons). The source is biased, so just scroll down to the observations on bonobos entitled, "Explaining Seemingly "Homosexual" Animal Behavior" His observations are compelling, but inconclusive to the topic.
Animals don’t have ulterior motives. It’s our own society which is eager to discredit sexual bonds between males and tries to find explanations for simple acts driven by sexual attraction amongst animals.
It’s really amazing the lengths to which the scientists go to accomplish this. One the one ‘hand’ they term a purely procreative activity between male and female with no evidence of bonding or physical attraction as ‘love’. On the other hand they try to find all sorts of ‘explanations’ for clear cut acts of bonding and physical attraction between same-sex. It is clear that they are keen on heterosexualising the wild-life.
The heterosexual society usually follows the following tactics to negate evidences of sexual need between males (whether in humans or animals):
- destroy them; failing which,
- deny/ not acknowledge them; failing which
- ignore them, failing which,
- fraternise or create into non-sexual platonic bonds, failing which,
- homosexualise/ feminise/ minoritise them (where the participants were shown as not so manly and deviant), failing which,
- belittle them (as being unimportant -- probably there weren't girls around)
The author of “explaining seemingly homosexual animal behaviour” is trying the last strategy, when everything else has failed. But really, how long can you run away from the truth.
jayleew said:
...I am drawn to a conclusion based on the evidence given by both sides, that animals are driven by sexual impulses.
Well you may decide to close your eyes and bury your head in the sand, like the ostrich --- but that won’t alter the truth.
Certainly animals are driven by impulses, but their impulses don’t drive them towards heterosexuality. They do care about gender. They only approach females when they need to procreate (and vice versa for females). Just look at the immense problem faced by zoo-keepers all over the world in forcing males to mate with females. There is a lot of documentation of this problem. They expect these poor animals to form heterosexual bonds, because they sincerely believe that is a natural way to be. But they put off the animals so much that they just refuse to mate. It’s a common problem.
jayleew said:
The circumstances in which the animal is in can influence its sexual desire, which can lead to sex, regardless of gender. This would explalin why a dog, when excited in some way, will want to have sex (even with humans). This article explains that the stimulation of the dog from the scent of a female, or social stimulation will trigger unusual sexual behavior (even with cats).
O.K. it’s time now to address your ‘dog’ theory. It’s only a rare dog that becomes so excited that he is ready to have sex with other species. By no means is it a universal dog/ animal behaviour. This trait is found in humans too, and although rare is not unnatural. But this sex is never followed by bonding. The real sexual drive of a living being is reflected in the gender it prefers to bond with.
jayleew said:
It would seem that there is more evidence that the animal kingdom is bisexual and sexually driven by instinct and evolution than any claim for heterosexuality or homosexuality.
Let’s forget about bisexuality and homosexuality for now. Let’s just say that there is no evidence of heterosexuality.
jayleew said:
Still, you are stretching the argument to go so far as to say there is no evidence of heterosexuality, because heterosexuality is the predominant observational evidence that we have encountered.
If you view the world wearing red spectacles the world would look red to you. No one has been able to provide one evidence out of this ‘predominant observational’ evidences.
jayleew said:
Even those that argue pro-homosexuality, acknowledge that homosexualilty is a phenomenon and not the normal behavior. There has yet much to be explained away that is perceived to be heterosexual behavior. For now, it is assumed.
Homosexuality and heterosexuality are really both two sides of the same coin. Both represent the same gender of males. Both are based on the same skewed (modern) western worldview. They both need an unnatural mixed/heterosexual society to exist. Without the heterosexualisation of the society there would be no homosexuality.
jayleew said:
Science, in its search for the unexplainable, is chaotic and causes strife and division in its own current beliefs and this is another example of it. I am against changing too fast, our beliefs, before they are tried and true. If we lived our lives by the whim of evidence, we would think the world is flat one day and round another. Science fanatics look to change to world in one day because they think they find conclusive evidence, which later studies prove otherwise.
Of course you don’t need science to prove that male-bonding is a natural part of being a man. Unless you live in such an artificial, unnatural society that you can’t figure out your own nature.