Biological exuberance
animal homosexuality and natural diversity
by Bruce Bagemihl
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Drawing upon a rich body of zoological research spanning more than two centuries, Bruce Bagemihl shows that animals engage in all types of nonreproductive sexual behavior. Sexual and gender expression in the animal world displays exuberant variety, including same-sex courtship, pair-bonding, sex, and co-parenting - even instances of lifelong homosexual bonding in species that do not have lifelong heterosexual bonding.
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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
2000, St. Martin's Press
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Biological exuberance: animal homosexuality and natural diversity
2000, St. Martin's Press
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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Stonewall Inn Editions)
April 10, 2000, Stonewall Inn Editions
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Biological exuberance: animal homosexuality and natural diversity
1999, St. Martin's Press
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Biological exuberance: animal homosexuality and natural diversity
1999, St. Martin's Press
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Biological exuberance: animal homosexuality and natural diversity
Sep 30, 1999, Brand: Profile Books, London, Profile Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 671-732) and indexes.
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"In the dimly lit undergrowth of a Central American rain forest, jewel-like male hummingbirds flit through the vegetation, pausing briefly to mate now with a male, now with a female."
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The discussion of homosexuality and inter-gendered sexual activity covers mostly mammals and birds. A large number of zoological studies are cited to argue that such activity is very common, as revealed in controversially operationalised data.
The danger of annthropomorphism is ever present with the use of terms such as 'pleasure', 'courtsthip'. Sexually diverse behaviour in anaimals and humans is seen as driven by biological exuberance, an excess of sexual energy and, when combined with cultural elements, of ingenuity in discharging it. The case is well made that sexual behaviour has been neglected in animal studies, where old binaries and prejudices have prevailed, and that sexual diversity might have played a key role in the development of social and linguistic capacities.
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