AN IMPORTANT SOURCE THAT SHOWS THAT THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IN THE WEST IS HIGHLY BIASED IN RESEARCH ABOUT SEXUALITY BETWEEN MALES IN THE WILD
(and for anyone that claims that the west is highly supportive of sexuality between men, this amply proves them wrong too)
Biological Exuberance: by Bruce Bagemihl
(an online review): excerpts:
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... most scientists have thus far studiously avoided the topic of widespread homosexual behaviour in the animal kingdom -- somettmes in the face of undeniable evidence.
An overview of biologists discomfort with their own observations of animal homosexuality over 200 years would be truly hilarious if it didn't reflect a tendency of humans (and only humans) to respond with aggression and hostility to same-sex behavior in our own species. In fact, Bagemihl reports, scientists have sometimes been afraid to report their observations for fear of recrimination from a hidebound (and homophobic) academia. Scientists use of anthropomorphizing vocabulary such as insulting, unfortunate, and inappropriate to describe same-sex matings shows a decided lack of objectivity on the part of naturalists. Astounding as it sounds, a number of scientists have acutally argued that whn a female Bonobo wraps her legs around another female ... while emitting screams of enjoyment, this is actually greeting behavior, or appeasement behavior ... almost anything, it seems, besides pleasurable sexual behavior. Throw this book into the middle of wildlife biologists and watch them scatter. But Bagemihl doesn't let the scientific community's discomfort deny him the opportunity to show the love that dare not bark its name in all its feathery, furry, toothy diversity.
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