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Subject:	Re: Terms and Conditions Question
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 11 May 1999 01:08:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: > "Jesse R. Long" wrote: > > > > Using animals to support homosexuality is > > difficult, as homosexuality is about preferring males over females, > > either for sexual pleasure or for companionship (with sexual > > overtones). Animals use sex for mating, and no more (although there > > may be a claim for higher-order thinking among chimps). > > 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 course, but I assume that any animal > (let's stick to mamals for more certainty) would do so if it gave them > the 'right' kind of pleasure. You seem to asert that sex for > procreation is the result of lower-order thinking and that sex for > pleasure is a result of higher-order thinking. That's backwards. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Christopher L. Weeks > central Missouri, USA 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 higher-order mammals have sex for pleasure.

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		Animal reproduction (was (of course?) Terms and Conditions Question)
(...) 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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		Re: Terms and Conditions Question
(...) 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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