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I have a very 2014 question for you: How would you respond if you found out that a man living down the street regularly has sexual intercourse with a horse?
Would you be morally disgusted? Consider him and his behavior an abomination? Turn him in to the police? (This would be an option in the roughly three-quarters of states that — for now — treat bestiality as a felony or misdemeanor.)
Or would you perhaps suppress your gag reflex and try hard to be tolerant, liberal, affirming, supportive? Maybe you'd even utter the slogan that deserves to be emblazoned over our age as its all-purpose motto and mantra: Who am I to judge?
Thanks to New York magazine, which recently ran a completely nonjudgmental 6,200-word interview with a " zoophile " who regularly enjoys sex with a mare — unironic headline: "What it's like to date a horse" — these questions have been much on my mind.
Because this is a very big deal, in cultural and moral terms.
No, not the fact of bestiality, which ( like incest ) has always been with us, but the fact of an acclaimed, mainstream publication treating it as a matter of complete moral indifference. (Aside, of course, from the requisite concern about animal abuse — a nonhuman analog to the pervasive emphasis on consent as the only relevant moral criterion for judging sexual behavior. The interview dispenses with this worry by informing us that the zoophile regularly brings his equine lover to orgasm orally — and that she often initiates acts of intimacy, showing that she appears to enjoy their sexual interactions.)
Am I worried that large numbers of people will soon choose to shack up with their pets or farm animals? Not at all. I can't imagine that very many people will ever be drawn to bestiality, no matter how casually it is treated in the media.
Why, then, is the New York interview a big deal? Because it's perhaps the most vivid sign yet that, in effect, the United States (and indeed the entire Western world) is running an experiment — one with very few, if any, antecedents in human history. The experiment will test what happens when a culture systematically purges all publicly affirmed notions of human flourishing, virtue and vice, elevation and degradation .
Moral and religious traditionalists have seen this coming and warned about its consequences for years. And indeed, they are the ones raising the loudest ruckus about the New York interview.
I share some of their concerns. But there are at least two problems with their analysis of the experiment.
First, the trads are wrong to blame the purging of publicly affirmed notions of human flourishing on the spread of relativism. Viewed from inside traditionalist notions of virtue and vice, a culture that seeks to redefine "normal" to include zoophilia might seem like a culture defined by relativism. But it isn't. Rather, it's a culture fervently devoted to the moral principle of equal recognition and affirmation — in a word, to an absolute ethic of niceness. Moral condemnation can be mean, and therefore it's morally wrong — that's the way growing numbers of Americans think about these issues.
Of course, these nonjudgmental Americans would think differently — they would continue to publicly affirm notions of human flourishing and condemn acts that diverge from the norm — if they confidently believed in the foundation of these judgments. But increasingly, they do not. Judeo-Christian piety used to supply it for many, but no longer.
Then there's the option of basing our judgments on what conservative bioethicist Leon Kass once called " the wisdom of repugnance " — that is, on our commonsense moral intuitions. But as the liberal philosopher Martha Nussbaum has argued, the " ick factor " just isn't a reliable basis on which to make moral evaluations. And we know that from lived experience. Interracial romances once seemed icky, but then they didn't. Next it was homosexual acts that passed through the looking glass from repellant to respectable. Faced with this slippage and uncertainty — with a long string of reversals in moral judgment — it's no wonder that the ethic of unconditional niceness increasingly trumps all other considerations.
And that brings us to the second way in which the trads go wrong — in speaking confidently about how we're "galloping toward Gomorrah." This implies that they know exactly where the experiment is going to end up. The truth is that they — and we — have no idea at all. Because there has never been a human society built exclusively on a morality of rights (individual consent) and an ethic of niceness, with no overarching vision of a higher human good to override or compete with it.
As I noted above, I find it hard to imagine that more than a tiny fraction of human beings will ever choose to engage in sex acts with animals, even if and when the taboo has been thoroughly deconstructed and the behavior mainstreamed by dozens of sympathetic stories in the media. I suspect the same is true about incest and polyamory . Most people will continue to live boring, mundane sex lives, monogamously committed to one human being of the opposite sex at a time.
So what, then, is there to worry about? Why is this cultural experiment a big deal?
Because it stands as a stunning testament to our ignorance about ourselves. Roughly 2,500 years since Socrates first raised the question of how we should live, several centuries since the Enlightenment encouraged us to seek and promulgate scientific knowledge about the universe and human nature, Western humanity seems to have come to the conclusion that we haven't got a clue about an answer. There is no consensus whatsoever about what ways of life are intrinsically good or bad for human beings.
Get married and have kids? If that's what you want, sounds good. Live in a polyamorous arrangement? As long as everyone consents, have fun. What about my intense desire to copulate with a horse? Just make sure no one gets hurt — with hurt defined in the narrowest of terms (covering physical harm and the violation of personal preferences).
That's all we've got. Or at least all we're left with, now that we've shed the (ostensibly) discredited notions of human virtue that most people once affirmed.
Is that good enough? Can we do without a publicly affirmed vision of human flourishing? Fulfilling personal preferences (whatever they happen to be), seeking consent in all interactions, and abiding by the imperative of universal niceness — is that sufficient to bring happiness? Or will a world that tells us in a million ways that we are radically undetermined in our ends leave us feeling empty, lost, alone, unmoored, at sea, spiritually adrift?
But I suspect we're going to find out soon enough.
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Sure, birds can fly, but how do they have sex? Can they do it in the air? And where do they keep their reproductive organs?
For humans to understand bird sex, they must first throw out all thoughts of mammalian sex organs. Unlike mammals, most male birds do not have penises, according to Ornithology.com , a website run by Roger Lederer, professor emeritus of biological sciences at California State University, Chico.
Instead, both male and female birds have what's known as a cloaca.
The cloaca is an internal chamber that ends in an opening, and through this opening, a bird's sex organs — testes or ovaries — discharge sperm or eggs. This same opening also serves another purpose: the expulsion of urinary and digestive waste.
During mating seasons, the cloacal openings of both male and female birds swell, protruding slightly outside their bodies. When birds are feeling frisky, they rub their swollen cloacas together. The male's sperm, which has been stored in his cloaca, is deposited into the female's cloaca, where it travels up the chamber and eventually fertilizes an egg.
Though the process of avian insemination is similar to that of humans and other mammals, you won't be seeing a birdie Kama Sutra anytime soon: Birds typically have sex in only one position. And despite rumors to the contrary, it isn't possible for birds to have sex while in flight.
Usually, the male perches on top of the female, who moves her tail feathers to the side to expose her cloaca, according to Ornithology.com. Arching back, the male rubs his cloaca against hers.
This delicate balancing act can often take several attempts before resulting in successful copulation. Perhaps for fun — or to increase the chance of insemination — birds often have sex many times throughout the course of their mating period.
Prior to mating, birds engage in many different types of courtship rituals. Some perform dances or death-defying nose-dives, others feather nests for their prospective partners, while still others perform impressive ornithological arias to snag a mate, according to Birdspot.co.uk , a website for bird lovers.
Watch fascinating videos of bird mating dances from the Audubon society . Learn more about courtship rituals from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . See images of the most unique courtship dances from National Geographic .
This article was updated on Nov. 3, 2022 by Live Science managing editor Tia Ghose.
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In the 2003 movie Finding Nemo , Marlin loses his wife and offspring, so he decides to set off in search of his only remaining son. In real life, the clownfish protagonist of the animated film would have given up on Nemo, found another mate and probably changed his name from Marlin to Marlina. Clownfish ( Amphiprion ) form pairs that live together for years in symbiosis with an anemone. As in the script of the Pixar film, this species is vulnerable to predation in the wild, so it is common for one of the individuals in a pair to die. When that happens, the remaining fish searches for a new companion. If it turns out that both are male, the larger one of the two changes its sex definitively and becomes a female, as in this species they are the larger and more dominant.
In nature, sex change is considered a type of hermaphroditism, and it is not such a rare occurrence. We call individuals that can produce both male and female gametes hermaphrodites. Approximately 5% of animal species have this ability, although if we eliminate insects from the equation, this percentage increases to 30%, as all are unisexual in this group. There are two types of hermaphroditic animals: simultaneous hermaphrodites and sequential hermaphrodites. The first group are those that function as females and males at the same time: a classic example is the garden snail, in which pairs mate and inseminate each other. There are also some species that can self-fertilize, such as the tapeworm, an intestinal parasite of the flatworm phylum that lives alone.
Sequential hermaphrodites do not produce male and female gametes at the same time, but at different stages of their lives. This is the case with clownfish and also many invertebrates such as some cnidarians (a group that includes hydras and jellyfish), sea sponges, annelids, mollusks, flatworms, starfish and arthropods. Among vertebrates, sex change is widespread in fish and even occurs in some frog species. As such, this ability has evolved independently on many occasions, making it extremely adaptable in certain circumstances.
The primary explanation for sex change in nature is offered by the size advantage hypothesis, according to which sequential hermaphroditism is favored in those species whose individuals reproduce more efficiently with one sex when they are young or small, and more efficiently with the other sex when they are older or larger. The timing and direction of the sex change will largely depend on the mating system of these animals.
An example of this is provided by fish that live in polygyny , that is, when a male monopolizes the reproduction of several females. In these cases, the conversion is from female to male. When the fish are small they have no chance of reproducing as males because there will always be another bigger and more dominant rival, so it is better for them to be female until they too reach a considerable size. This switch from male to female is the most frequent in fish, having been documented in 305 species of the 450 that are considered hermaphrodites.
Trimma okinawae , a polygynous species of orange fish that is capable of reversibly changing sex, inhabits coral reefs near several Japanese islands. Measuring just 30 millimeters in length, it is one of the smallest vertebrates in existence and extremely vulnerable to predation. At any given moment, a larger fish can appear and eat the dominant male, leaving the females unable to reproduce. At least, that would be the case were it not for the fact that the largest female in the group then becomes the new male.
If another larger male subsequently appears, the previously dominant male can reverse the process and become female again. This bidirectional sex change occurs in 66 species of fish. The transformation from male to female is usually carried out by monogamous species, such as clownfish, but it is the most infrequent change and occurs in only 55 species.
As for the mechanism by which animals change sex, there is enormous variability, particularly depending on how complex their reproductive system is. Take, for example, the common limpet ( Patella vulgata ), a gastropod that is widespread in the seas of Western Europe. This animal has neither ovaries nor testes but only one organ, a gonad capable of producing both types of gametes. For limpets, changing sex does not require a significant anatomical transformation, it is only necessary to ask the factory change the order slightly.
A similar thing occurs in fish such as those of the genus Lythypnus , which have both mature male and female gametes in their gonad but for a time only use those of one sex to reproduce. Anatomically, they are like a simultaneous hermaphrodite, but they are categorized as sequential because science applies greater importance to the practical aspect. After all, this is what counts when it comes to studying the adaptation that sex change requires in evolution.
Individuals of the mentioned T. okinawae , when they are young females, possess active ovaries and inactive testes. In order to become male, they simply generate a type of steroid hormone that deactivates the ovaries and activates the testes, which is why it is so easy for them to reverse the process later. On the other hand, wrasses, a family of colorful fish that are also polygynous, undergo a greater transformation in their reproductive system, as initially they have an ovary that irreversibly becomes a testicle.
There are so many species and the variability is so great that science has not yet documented all of the ways in which animals change sex. In fact, the oceans are still home to many species completely unknown to science. In 2019, a beautiful species of wrasse with a very showy purple coloration was described for the first time and named Cirrhilabrus wakanda , after the Marvel franchise . In this species, when females become males, they not only change their reproductive system but also acquire a yellow spot on their heads. This year, another species of wrasse ( Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa ) was documented for the first time. When this species changes gender, it adopts very bright coloring to attract females, drawing on its own previous experience of what attracts the opposite sex.
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A WOMAN has been arrested accused of arranging to have sex with a dog to "celebrate" the animal's first birthday.
Police say Rebekah Little used her Instagram page to find an animal to abuse at her home in Houston, Texas.
In December 2017, she was contacted by Jerrid Cook, who said he and another man named Kevin Cook would bring their dog, Ryder, to the apartment to "have fun".
Jerrid said the dog wanted sex with a human "as a birthday present", prosecutors say.
Court documents say the two men took Ryder to Little home on Christmas Day, but the pet "was not cooperating" with the plan.
"He was too hyper, jumping everywhere," the documents claim.
Little, a real estate professional, told Houston Police that she didn't ultimately have sex with the dog because she was too nervous.
All three have now been charged with bestiality, although only Little is in custody.
Police have put out warrants for the arrest of Jerrid and Kevin.
Because the two have not yet been arrested, full details of their alleged actions have not been released.
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