Comments on: Birdie Buggery

By: storney

storney — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:59:12 +0000

I think it’s lovely. Wouldn’t it be fun to have two little gay dogs in love? I’m betting gay pets will be a big novelty within the next few years

By: Wild Pegasus

Wild Pegasus — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:11:53 +0000

Didn’t the greeks like a bit of muff and fumble?

Indeed. Pederasty was the mark of a cultured and wealthy classical Greek man.

- Josh

By: wade

wade — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:08:40 +0000

Didn’t the greeks like a bit of muff and fumble?

By: Wallster

Wallster — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:06:07 +0000

Frank, that is blatantly discriminatory. The ability of penguins to assist your monkey butlers in the training of other monkey butlers has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the penguin. Simple science, man.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:43:48 +0000

MaaddMaaxx writes: “Under overpopulation the result was abuse, murder, and homosexuality. Regardless of claims otherwise it is not natural.”

What’s unnatural about overpopulation?

It can happen naturally.

You’re grabbing at straws.

By: Frank N

Frank N — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 10:41:49 +0000

You know I was floating around the idea of Penguin Butlers. They would be assistants to the monkeys. Now I’m not so sure.

By: MaaddMaaxx

MaaddMaaxx — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:18:06 +0000

This reminds me of a study done on rats in a closed invironment where under normal population pressures the rats enjoyed a normal social environment. Under overpopulation the result was abuse, murder, and homosexuality. Regardless of claims otherwise it is not natural.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:30:17 +0000

randall writes: “these examples of ‘gay animals’ are not gay because they do not have homosexual sex each other.”

Uh, randall, when the Times story says, about rhesus monkeys, “both sexes mount members of their own sex”, “mount” means “have sex”.

Also, you’re apparently too focused on gay male sex. Lesbian sex wouldn’t inherently involve penetration. It could just be mounting and rubbing. Are you saying that lesbians aren’t gay?

Also, with most birds, there is no penis involved in sex. The two birds just touch their cloacas together, and the sperm is transferred. There’s just the one cloaca on a bird, not different orifices like mammals have. All bird sex is anal sex, so it’s no different for same-sex pairs.

By: digamma

digamma — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:14:54 +0000

What's great is that this is also the first species other than homo sapiens that mastered prostitution.

By: randall

randall — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:37:44 +0000

While the article cites some examples of homosexuality among animals, it is probably a very long stretch to compare sexual habits of penguins, sea gulls, and other birds with humans and there is some doubt about the sexual nature of animal bonding that does not involve actual sex. Another example used, dolphins, seems to indicate male bonding not homosexuality. With the absence of sexual activity it seems that animals may form bonds with the same sex but seldom if ever actually engage in a sex act. In other words, these examples of ‘gay animals’ are not gay because they do not have homosexual sex each other.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:33:59 +0000

I think it’s lovely. Wouldn’t it be fun to have two little gay dogs in love? I’m betting gay pets will be a big novelty within the next few years.

By: Chris Farley

Chris Farley — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 21:28:02 +0000

When they start using animals as a comparison, they’ve lost. How long until some redneck beats up a gay person and says that it was natural, because the guy was invading his territory, which he clearly marked by pissing on trees.

By: John T. Kennedy

John T. Kennedy — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:23:39 +0000

Sick? Well homosexuality does appear to be a dysfunction for penguins, doesn’t it? I mean come on, these guys were trying to hatch a rock…

By: The Binary Circumstance

The Binary Circumstance — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:06:10 +0000

Valentine’s Day at the Zoo

With Valentine’s Day upon us, Roy and Silo, two Central Park penquins, show us the love[SF. Chron. version]. The New York Times version [reg. req.] of the same article includes a picture of two homosexual penguins. A picture!!! So don’t

By: corquando

corquando — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:24:07 +0000

http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/penguins.htm

By: corquando

corquando — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:20:47 +0000

Awrr, what’s that penguin doing on the telly?

By: platosearwax

platosearwax — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:58:21 +0000

Oh man, I wonder what Opus would say about this.