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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Is homosexual behavior in animals just dominance?

This "dominance" issue is irrelevant. We may not like to admit it but dominance/submission is a large part of human sex.

This begins to look like all those other facts out there that religionists just simply deny in spite of evidence. Homosexual behavior is widespread in the animal world, and so is homosexuality. I remember a neighbor farmer who referred all the time (with great amusement) to his "queer duck." He saw and understood, but if he had been taught homosexuality was "unnatural" he would have said "submissive" or something -- or probably just ignored what his eyes told him.

It is true homosexuals are rare, the purely homosexual population is probably about one percent of the population. It is a spectrum, and more than likely the purely heterosexual population is not much larger. Still it is not a Bell curve, but largely slanted toward the heterosexual side.

One final comment -- all this does not imply better or worse. The human intelligence scale has a shape not much different from the human sexuality scale -- and being a genius is, at least usually, a benefit to humanity.

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