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[moved to off-topic.debate] (...) What treatment areare you talking about? Is it medical, i.e. involving only drugs and procedures(surgery, etc.)? If it involves cultural (therapy, religion) treatments, it is not a medical illness. If it involves (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Good. (...) You mean like humans? (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One species Chimpanzees comes to mind first(1). I know there are others, I just can't think of them at the moment. :) Jeff 1 - Besides humans, of course. (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wolves, as well as most other varieties of canine. James (URL) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Rats, under the right conditions (overcrowding). Baboons, sometimes (but it's more a dominance/pecking-order thing, IIRC). Steve (26 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Please elaborate on this. How do you know this? (26 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:37360AF0.C529D8...oot.com... (...) I think the reference is to wolves pecking order. When the alpha male (or any other male) is challenged for rank, the fight is rarely deadly. When one wolf (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There are special newsgroups devoted to this, ah...subject. ;-) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I disagree. Complex animals (people included) use sex for feeling good. I would say that people may be the only animal to actually use sex for procreation. I really don't know what animals engage in homosexual behavior, aside from humans of (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:3737225B.8E1F1D...uri.edu... (...) good. (...) for (...) them (...) It's not backwards, it's instinct. If there is any pleasure, it's an evolutionary motivator to encourage (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I assist in running a Werewolf: The Apocalypse(1) chronicle, and someone mentioned it to me in passing, and my curiousity was roused. I investigated on the net, and at my local University library. In a nutshell, there are numerous observed (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know they're going to release a PC version of this, right? (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I disagree - the majority of mammals have sex only to procreate. The females of most species will only allow sex when they are "furtile". The males of most species still have the ability to determine when the female is in "heat". Only the (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How does one make a politically correct RPG? Steve (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe we're at more than 2 decades now. Most people (around here, anyway) first heard of RPGs (D&D, probably) when a kid disappeared while playing a re-enactment type game. (...) I heard someone was calling for school dress codes banning (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Of course, but it's also all the animal is concerned with. (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The way I read this, it sounds like you think the critters know that reproduction is the outcome of their sex act. I don't think that's so. I agree that it's instinctually and hormonally driven, but I think the female allows and the male (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Politiaclly Correct, or Personal Computer? Werewolf, or the Massacre at Littleton(1)? 1. Some may be offended by this, but one of the first things I thought of after the Littleton episode was programming a Doom game using the school floorplan. (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, we are beyond two decades indeed - I was refering to me, specifically - I've only been gaming for...(quick mental math)17 years(1), so I haven't hit my 2 decade mark yet. (...) Guns don't kill people. Trenchcoats kill people.(2) James (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 16:07:59 GMT, "James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote: BTW, what's the scoop about Littleton and RPG? I haven't heard any links... (...) I don't know that anything is being blown out of proportion. Violence in the US, (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Several of the early news articles cited White Wolf's Vampire RPG as a cause, because the two guys played it. I'm too lazy right now to hunt down any URL's and my sources all came hard copy, but I saw 3 articles that all either outright blamed (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My dad said he read an article that said they played Final Fantasy VII, and seemed to use it as an example of what is bad about video games and RPGs. My (extended) family in Indiana think I am really disturbed for playing AD&D. One of my Aunts (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Role-playing B@@Ks!! That's the ultimate babe turn away judging by my friends reactions: Rachel: What are you reading Phil? Phil: It's Bens... Ben: What? Ben is a role-playing friend : slander@fored.freeserve.co.uk - he mostly does Vampire: (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The pastor at my wife's parents' church used to be an avid AD&D player. He still likes the game but says he bowed to silent pressure from his congregation years ago and stopped hosting sessions and playing. He did come to my defense, though, (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Computer. (...) Wereworlf. Dunno how much it will resemble the RPG, but there is a game that is in the advanced stages of development. (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:37384BDE.5D9568...uri.edu... (...) females (...) of most (...) "heat". (...) I think that Ed is writing in a style that is used when discussing evolutionary life strategy. An (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm just finishing up being a grad student in education and in a class I was taking this past semester -- where many of the other students were teachers -- I suggested during discussion that measures should be taken in school to address the (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This _may_ be, and I understand the style and its purpose, but since the conversation is about personal motivation for animals to engage in homosexual behavior, that frame of reference is inappropriate. (...) Are you asserting this, or are you (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote in message news:3739A6C9.4D7137...uri.edu... (...) the (...) Hardly. The original hypothesis floated here was that animals engage in homosexual behavior, thus humans have some sort of natural (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<3739A6C9.4D71376@cc...souri.edu> <FBMy2u.Hy4@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I missed the point (I guess) that this is the derivitave of 'natural' justification for homosexuality. That (...) (26 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, all animals have emotions. Mammals have much more sofisticated emotions than, say, lizards though. If the Discovery channel re-runs the show 'Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry', check it out. It was extremely informative about the (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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