Homosexuality in nonhuman animals
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-6224v19i2p147-170Keywords:
Non-human animals, Sexual orientation, DispositionalismAbstract
This paper aims at defending that there is homosexuality in non-human animals. Sexual intercourse between non-human animals of the same sex has been recorded for a long time. Many people have used this fact to defend ethical and political issues related to sexual orientation, which, in its turn, generates some debate. Especially three different arguments have been raised to reject the idea that homosexuality exists among animals: same sex behavior take place in unnatural places, they should not be considered as sexual behavior, and sexuality is inaccessible in non-human animals. In this paper, these arguments will be discussed, and, from a dispositionalist definition of homosexuality, it will be argued that in some specific cases there is homosexuality in non-human animals.
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