Florida and California may have banned gay marriage, but it looks like members of the animal kingdom have no qualms with being out of the closet. "Rainbow Animals," the world's first exhibition on animal homosexuality, will be opening at the Swedish Museum of Natural History on Nov. 8. The exhibit features photos and models of animals that regularly engage in same-sex relations.
The display exposes the activities of many species that engage in homosexual and bisexual behavior (like grey whales! and walruses!) and delves into how sex is used by animals for purposes other than reproduction, such as dominance and masturbation.
But, as Dr. Linda Wolfe of East Carolina University speculated to Live Science, "When it comes down to the bottom, I think it's just for sexual pleasure." (Pun intended, we hope!)
The exhibit suggests that ideas of heterosexuality and homosexuality don't exist in the animal world as they do in ours. For example, male black swan couples have been known to either mate with a female to reproduce or chase heterosexual couples away from their nests and "adopt" the young. Can you see this as the makings of a weird "My Two Dads" episode -- animal-style?
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Monday 10 November
By Rebekah Bell
Oh cmon! Give me a break! Animals do not have reason like we do. Only humans who are perverted would believe that animals have these issues. Humans are the only creatures given to such perversions. Animals do what their instincts tell them to do. They don't have the one thing humans do: free will. People make moral choices all the time. Homosexuality is a choice not an orientation and especially not for animals.
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Sunday 16 November
By Phoenix
Wow...each and every time I hear this phrase, I am reminded how simple minded some homophobes are. So I'm going to break this down very simply for you, honey. Being gay is NOT a choice.
Why on Earth would you assume it was? Do you honestly believe that some gay guy was straight at one point and woke up one morning and said to himself: "Gee, being just like everyone else and being able to have children is stupid! I'll go have sex with guys now! It doesn't matter that most major religions tell me I'll go to hell for this! It doesn't matter that friends and my own family might hate me for this and never speak to me again! It doesn't matter that I'll be joining a minority that is mocked and denied the same basic rights as everyone else! Let's be gay!"
To sum it up simply: you're a retard. It's not a choice. Science may not have been able to prove this yet, but COMMON SENSE has already ruled the day on this one, my friend.
Wednesday 19 November
By will
right on Rebekah, well said.
Monday 10 November
By Ron
Get over yourself dude
We don't chose... we just born... like them too
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Thursday 13 November
By Kris
You're right... animals don't have free will. Therefore, if they are engaging in homosexual acts it is because GOD intended them to do so. So then why would He get all bent out of shape if humans did so? Answer - he wouldn't, only insecure guys and the women who love them care.
You want something that is REALLY perverse that you NEVER see in nature that I know of?? Drinking the milk of another species. Only in captivity will one species allow another to nurse from it. A totally ARTIFICIAL behavior, never seen in nature, that people do on a daily basis.
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Friday 14 November
By Julia
are you kiddingg me? Animals are animals..beasty brainless things. You can't compare them to people.
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Friday 14 November
By Pamela
Animals are neither brainless or beastly ............sounds like you are though. Nature is nature, animals have more understanding and compassion then most people. AS far as their sexual habits, they do what instinct tells them to do, like the black swan.........
Friday 14 November
By Pamela
Animals are neither brainless or beastly, you may be , but animals have more compassion and love then a lot of people , and they have BRAINS! Nature is nature, animals act on instinct, like the black swan , many animals can reproduce with the same sex.............
Saturday 15 November
By clyde simkins
nature...hmm...what is it?
Are we fixed (no pun, really), or are we mutable?
If I try to use the animal kingdom to determine sexuality based on the claim that they are acting on instinct, then I have to prove ALL instinctual acts are good or the whole argument falls apart. It MAY be instinctual to kill for sustanance. But...we know it's not necessary, as humans, and can live quite well without killing--and likely even better. Overriding a possible instinct with our far superior forebrain capacities. Is it our nature to eat meat?
Anyhow, using an example of animals, who lick their own asses, and will even eat poop, is a stretch to substantiate the claim of its naturality. Because it occurs in nature, in what seems to be the most natural situation, with an unaware instinctual life form, does not mean that we don't necessarily transcend these anamalian tendencies.
This all doesn't prove homosexuality in humans is 'wrong' either. Try to find a basis for this. The Bible? (read God or what is believed to be the word and wishes of God). Tradition?
Sometimes, especially when it gets into these sorts of issues, it's best to remain agnostic.
Though I do believe some people are simply born with an innate proclivity to one sex or the other and that 'nature' doesn't always work the way some people would like it to.
I think it's most important to love ALL people regardless of their orientation. Accept them ALL into 'our' tribe as brothers and sisters of this planet and evolve as human beings enough to embrace and love all regardless of what we don't agree with or with what we simply DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
A little humility goes a long way. Though I do believe there's a whole bunch we DO know, there's also an enormous amount that we do NOT know. And if we are honest, I believe this is one of those clear areas where it's very unclear.
And this is as far as my hubris will go...
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Sunday 16 November
By Rachel
Finally, some real intelligence. Really impressive. I wish there were more of you and me in this world...
Saturday 15 November
By CHUCKIE
This is hilarious! Male dogs will hump anything, regardless of sex or orientation or even if what they're humping is breathing. (This is why most guys are "dog people." ) The one thing animals don't have is religion to tell them that they're perverted and sick. Who says people are the most intelligent life-form earth has to offer?
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Sunday 16 November
By Sergio
I agree. Religion is the only reason I know I'm a pervert. Although I'm Hetero, I'm constantly reminded by a 2000 year old zombie, that I must live in shame for the instincts he created me with. If only animals were capable of this reasoning. Then they could live with depression and shame like we do for not living up to religious values, and maybe they could even start to fight amongst each other over who is more moral.
Don't forget to tithe! We have lawsuits to pay for.
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Sunday 16 November
By Sergio
I agree. Religion is the only reason I know I'm a pervert. Although I'm Hetero, I'm constantly reminded by a 2000 year old zombie, that I must live in shame for the instincts he created me with. If only animals were capable of this reasoning. Then they could live with depression and shame like we do for not living up to religious values, and maybe they could even start to fight amongst each other over who is more moral.
Don't forget to tithe! We have lawsuits to pay for.
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Tuesday 18 November
By Heather
I am laughing SO hard right now! I totally agree.
Tuesday 18 November
By Paul
Absolute rubbish. Homosexuals will distort anything they see to justify what they are doing. As children, we called that a "guilty conscience". If you are so certain that what you are doing is right, why do you have to convince me? Just do the thing that you are going to do anyway. The homosexual lobby does not need my blessing; and it is not forthcoming.
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Wednesday 19 November
By Adrien
Okay this is my ultimate strand of evidence in my "we are not in a recession" theory. Seriousely??!!
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Wednesday 19 November
By M
You're guilty, Paul. Stop beating yourself up about your tendencies.
I agree homosexuals should not have to justify protection from discrimination from closet cases like you or justify receiving the same civil rights for which we are already paying our taxes.
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Friday 19 December
By Shaun
Looks like these demonic social perverts are attempting at reinvigerating the acts of "gay-bashing"! Their relentless acts at trying to get public attention is what makes them so offensive to most people!
Anyway, we lovers of God and his majestic order will shed no tears when these sodomites learn the hard way that a lion knows the differents between a Christian and some wierdos slandering Jesus!
One more thing, anybody that takes 30 minutes or more a day to read about the world, along with a prayer...knows how these devils force, vegatarian animals such as apes, to eat meat. Then record the apes' demented social behavior and say,"...SEEE there are homos in the wild!!!" Mya the good father have mercy on these poor fools and the many weak who fall pray to thier lies.
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Saturday 20 December
By Jim
Hey, Shaun, you ever engaged in any type of oral sex in your life? Well, if so, here's a shock: you're a "sodomite" as well. And for the record, Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because of a gross lack of SOCIAL JUSTICE, which included things like RAPE, both heterosexual as well as homosexual. Both of these cities were GREEDY, selfish, narcissistic, and intolerant of all others and wanted no outsiders living within their cities. Sound familiar, you born-again HYPOCRITE? You sound like the typical, fundamentalist "Christian" who thinks that your beliefs and values are the only ones that matter, and only you and your minister know the truth and thus, shall be saved. Right. I suppose you also hate other Christian religions as well (like the Catholics) too. Jesus did not teach hatred, discrimination, and intolerance; rather, He rallied against it. You should really re-read your Bible, IF you've got one.
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Saturday 20 December
By Jim
Homosexuality is NOT a choice, Rebekah dumbbell. We are born this way; I'm NOT a pervert, except in the minds of the ignorant and hateful intolerants, such as yourself. I knew I wanted other guys by the time I was 4 or 5 years old. Tried marriage for almost 10 years, HATED IT. It felt GROSSLY UNNATURAL to me, like having sex with your mother or sister. YUK! You hate mongering homophobes have no idea what it is like to grow up gay, to BE gay, the injustices that we experience throughout many facets of our lives, the ostracism..............you'll just never know. But, ignorance is bliss, I suppose. Trust me, I tried to "change", only to have those same-sex urges grow stronger instead of weaker. It would be so easy to be "straight" in this world, if only we COULD. Do you really think that anyone would CHOOSE to be so hated and discriminated against by the rest of society at large? If so, YOU'RE the "pervert", not me. And by the way, it's usually the husbands and boyfriends of people like yourself who covertly seek out gay sex behind your back. I know, because I get approached almost every day from "straight" married guys! May one of your own children turn out gay; then, perhaps, you might possibly, slightly, begin to understand. "Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes.........". Oh, and of course, "Judge NOT, lest you, too, be judged."
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