What you seem to not understand is you cannot use animal homosexuality to claim homosexuality in humans is normal. That is reductio ad absurdum.
Animals do not 'normally' practice homosexual behavior first off, second..animal sexuality is instinctive and most experts agree that it is conflicting stimuli that confuses their instincts which causes them to do those things. Thirdly, humans have the capacity to think logically and critically to resist sexual urges, animals do not have that capacity.
Thanks for playing.
Human sexuality is not instinctive? Talk about reducto ad absurdum.
What should anyone resist their sexual urges when it comes to a consenting adults?
Not in the same way that the lower animal's sexuality is. It isn't entirely instinctive, it can be influenced by outside factors and we all have different tastes in what we want in a mate. A dog doesn't, it'll hump whatever it can.
You fail my friend.
There are numerous examples of homosexuality in nature. Quite a few species have been documented as having same gender pairings. And it has nothing to do with a lack of opposite gender mates or dominance.
Animals of various species abnormally engage in homosexuality, just as humans abnormally do. There is nothing preventing the same abnormalities from appearing in various species. Ho hum. This has gotten boring. Same old dumb arguments.
I'm going to my other computer forum now. Nothing happening here.
But it does occur in nature, so your claims that it is not natural are wrong.
Yeah, you might want to go play somewhere else. You've lost this with your "I don't want to see them!" argument. Get used to same sex couples.
Just because something happens in nature doesn't mean it is 'natural'. If it is due to confused instinct, it is an abnormality.
If it was confused instinct, it would be extremely isolated events. They have observed Bonobos chimps in long term, sexually active, same sex relationships.
Ah....using the rapist nature of bonobos as a rationale for human homosexuality. That's pretty funny.
This ought to help you out:
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Animals Lack the Means to Express Their Affective States
To stimuli and clashing instincts, however, we must add another factor: In expressing its affective states, an animal is radically inferior to man.
Since animals lack reason, their means of expressing their affective states (fear, pleasure, pain, desire, etc.) are limited. Animals lack the rich resources at man's disposal to express his sentiments. Man can adapt his way of talking, writing, gazing, gesturing in untold ways. Animals cannot. Consequently, animals often express their affective states ambiguously. They "borrow," so to speak, the manifestations of the instinct of reproduction to manifest the instincts of dominance, aggressiveness, fear, gregariousness and so on.
Explaining Seemingly "Homosexual" Animal Behavior
Bonobos are a typical example of this "borrowing." These primates from the chimpanzee family engage in seemingly sexual behavior to express acceptance and other affective states. Thus, Frans B. M. de Waal, who spent hundreds of hours observing and filming bonobos, says:
There are two reasons to believe sexual activity is the bonobo's answer to
avoiding conflict.
First, anything, not just food, that arouses the interest of more than one bonobo at a time tends to result in sexual contact. If two bonobos approach a cardboard box thrown into their enclosure, they will briefly mount each other before playing with the box. Such situations lead to squabbles in most other species. But bonobos are quite tolerant, perhaps because they use sex to divert attention and to
diffuse tension.
Second,
bonobo sex often occurs in aggressive contexts totally unrelated to food. A jealous male might chase another away from a female, after which the two males reunite and engage in scrotal rubbing. Or after a female hits a juvenile, the latter's mother may l
unge at the aggressor, an action that is immediately followed by genital rubbing between the two adults. Like bonobos, other animals will mount another of the same sex and engage in seemingly "homosexual" behavior, although their motivation may differ. Dogs, for example, usually do so to express dominance. Cesar Ades, ethologist and professor of psychology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, explains, "When two males mate, what is present is a demonstration of power, not sex."
Jacque Lynn Schultz, ASPCA Animal Sciences Director of Special Projects, explains further:
Usually, an un-neutered male dog will mount another male dog as a display of
social dominance-in other words, as a way of letting the other dog know who's boss. While not as frequent, a female dog may mount for the same reason.
Dogs will also mount one another because of the vehemence of their purely chemical reaction to the smell of an estrus female: Not surprisingly, the smell of a female dog in heat can instigate a frenzy of mounting behaviors. Even other
females who are not in heat will mount those who are. Males will mount males who have just been with estrus females if they still bear their scent…. And males who catch wind of the estrus odor may mount the first thing (or an unlucky person) they come into contact with."