Warren and Ecolog:
As a stock-farmer's son, I have seen plenty of what appears to us to be
homosexual behavior among, for example, cows and bulls and ducks and dogs,
but I have never witnessed actual penetration, nor have I witnessed any
cases where bulls eschew cows in favor of sex with bulls. Homosexual in the
sense that it occurs in humans is the center of my interest, and anything
that is relevant to that question is of interest to me, including anecdotes.
"Mounting" of other bulls has long been considered dominance behavior, and
this occurs in humans who consider themselves heterosexual, as appears to be
the case with dogs.
Your point is well made about the continuum; Alan Watts once wrote an
article entitled (as I recall) "The Circle of Sex." That, or anything else I
have read, does not address my intentionally restricted question.
WT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren W. Aney" <[email protected]>
To: "'Wayne Tyson'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: [ECOLOG-L] Expedition notice and question
Wayne, I once had a beef cow that refused to mate with a bull -- she did
lactate and help nurture another cow's calf. The cow may have been
homosexual or asexual. I've heard livestock owners say that cows
frequently
display homosexual behavior (mounting other cows) but a cow exhibiting
excessive homosexual behavior including avoiding bills is usually sold for
slaughter.
As I understand it, in nature (including humans) there is a wide and
continuous spectrum of sexual behavior ranging from pure heterosexuality
to
bisexuality to pure homosexuality, and this range of behaviors is further
modified by a varying continuum of sexual intensity from hypersexuality to
asexuality.
Warren W. Aney
Tigard, Oregon
(503) 539-1009
-----Original Message-----
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Tyson
Sent: Wednesday, 27 March, 2013 10:32
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Expedition notice and question
[NOTE:] I will be on expedition (with a stop at the National Native Seed
Conference in Santa Fe NM on April 10) until the two weeks at the end of
April and the first week of May, then gone again beginning the 2nd week of
May until around May 24. I will not be checking email during those
periods,
but will respond to as many email messages as possible during those
hiatuses. A third expedition following those is likely, but the period of
hiatus is iffy.]
Here is my parting question. Please feel free to post it on other lists.
Re: Homosexuality in animals other than Homo sapiens. We know that
homosexual behavior occurs in other species in some forms (Bonobo
chimpanzees [Pan paniscus], for example), and we know that hermaphrodites
of
some species fertilize each other simultaneously. But my question is in
which species other than humans, does EXCLUSIVE homosexuality, especially
in
the form of pair bonds, occur?
WT
I'll pick up my answers in late April. If I have time, I may be able to
respond to some today. Please respond on-list, and not to me personally.
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