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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Bisexual Biologist.

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My name is Riley, your host for the show and this is a podcast where we talk queerness,

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nature and everything in between.

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On today's episode we're taking a look at one of the most hedonistic species on the

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planet whose sex lives are renowned globally.

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That's right, the spotlight is on bonobo chimpanzees today.

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Whether it be females scissoring every two hours, making out with tongue action included

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or orgies taking place when new foraging grounds have been discovered, these sex fluid apes

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have seen it all.

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They are loud and proud homos.

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So let's get into today's episode.

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Okay, hello everybody, welcome back.

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Today's episode's a fun one I believe.

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We're going to be exploring bonobo chimpanzees who are extremely hypersexual and sex fluid

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apes in the animal kingdom.

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So let's get into it shall we?

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So a little bit of background information is what we're going to start off with with

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bonobo chimpanzees just so you have some understanding of what they are and who they are if you've

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never heard of these gorgeous apes before.

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So bonobo chimpanzees are primates and are members of the great ape family.

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They make up one half of the genus Pan being Pan Paniscus is their scientific name.

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The other being the common chimpanzee known as Pan troglodytes or troglodytes.

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Not quite sure on the pronunciation of that one.

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So how do they differ from the common chimpanzee you may be asking?

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Well, they have relatively longer limbs, pinker lips, they have a darker face and a tail with

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a tuft on it throughout their adulthood lives.

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They have longer parted hair on their heads and they are found only within a 500,000 square

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kilometer region of the Congo basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.

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They inhabit an area of primary and secondary forests as well as seasonally inundated swamp

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forests.

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They are currently listed as endangered by the IUCN which is the International Union

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for Conservation of Nature and are in population decline like most species on this planet.

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I think it's around 70% of them are currently facing population decline.

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So go off humans, love what you're doing to the world.

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The reasons for this, of course, here they are habitat destruction, commercial poaching

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and human population growth.

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Common denominators when it comes to animal declines.

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Those are the factors.

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Like all mammals, especially the great apes, bonobos are capable of altruism, compassion,

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empathy, kindness, patience and sensitivity.

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This is directly from a primatologist known as Franz de Waal who quoted that, Kurt and

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Kurt.

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They are also very social and are unusual among apes for their matriarchal social structure

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with a coalition of high ranking sexy hot females and some males headed by an old and

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experienced matriarch who acts as the decision maker and leader of the group.

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Due to their nomadic nature and food distribution in their environment, males do not gain any

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obvious advantages by forming alliances with other males by defending a home or home range

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area.

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The females also possess sharper canines than their male counterparts, further signaling

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their status in the group.

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So the girlies have got sharper teeth and they can bite those dumb men back into their

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senses if they get out of control.

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You know, they'd snap them.

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Unlike the common chimpanzee, aggressive encounters are rare between males and females and males

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are tolerant of infants and juveniles.

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A male derives his status from that of his mother.

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The bond between the two of them stays very strong and is lifelong.

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That might be problematic because then you get mummy boy tendencies and we don't like

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that.

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No one likes a mummy's boy but the bonobo chimpanzees apparently are all mummy's boys.

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Little shits.

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So now that we have a baseline understanding of bonobos, let's dive into their fascinating

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socio-sexual behaviors because this is where all the fun stuff is.

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This is where they're a very interesting species and why I wanted to do a feature episode on

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the podcast about them.

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So they have one of the most renowned sex lives in the animal kingdom.

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They are also the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in tongue kissing.

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So when they kiss on the lips, they slip in a tongue and play tonsil hockey, you know,

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so good on them.

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They're learning.

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Sexual activity plays a large role in bonobo society.

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It is there as a form of pleasure and play and also there to form social bonds and also

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conflict resolution.

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So they use sexual intercourse sexual behaviors to stop tensions getting too high and to also

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make everyone feel good.

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Like sex is great.

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So why not do it more often and with everyone around you?

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Like why have barriers like human society has created?

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Just, you know, like get freaky and fuck whoever you want.

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Have some fun with it.

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So they are open and fluid individuals who do not subscribe to permanent monogamous relationships.

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Sounds like a majority of gay men in the world.

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Nor do they discriminate sexual behavior by sex or age.

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The only exception in this is that the mother son relationship.

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So mommy and son will not have sexual relations.

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Thank God.

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I'm unsure of the male to daughter scenarios.

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We hope that doesn't happen, but I didn't come across anything about it.

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So I'm just going to pretend it doesn't happen, you know?

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Okay, cool.

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Perfect.

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So the best things that I found out about them is what they do.

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So, oh my God, it's great.

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Merely coming across a new food source or a feeding ground in their environment will

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result in communal sexual activity.

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So AKA an orgy will take place.

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And this is most likely to decrease tension and encourage peaceful feeding within the

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group.

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So you can just imagine like these bonobos have been like walking around for hours and

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they're just a bit tired, a bit bothered, a bit hangry, you know, they really just want

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to chill out and eat some food, but they haven't found anything yet.

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Tensions were a bit high.

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Some people are getting pissed off at other people.

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And then suddenly they enter a clearing and this is like beautiful luscious feeding ground

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with lots of fruit trees and shit like that.

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There's like a river in the background bubbling about.

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It's just idyllic and everyone's kind of really hungry and they're getting a bit antsy

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and they just race the trees and the matriarchs like, fuck, like people are tensions are high.

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Like this needs to stop.

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So she stands up.

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She, no, she walks to a podium, I should say on top of a rock and then she commands their

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attention.

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They all look up at her hungry as fuck, like wanting to eat the food, but they can't because

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she hasn't given the green light.

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And then she raises her hands and does a little like clap like that and it's on.

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They all have been given the green light not to eat.

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They've been given the green light to start making out and getting down and dirty with

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each other.

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And this huge orgy just starts taking place with all these bonobo chimps and they're just

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having the time of their life.

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It's like you're in ancient Rome or something, the festival of Dionysus, like there's just

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wine flowing everywhere.

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The people having sex on the streets, like it's bonobo heaven.

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And then once they're all done, they're smoking cigarettes.

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They're standing around looking at each other being like, that was really great.

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Did you have a good time?

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I had a great time.

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And then they go and eat their food and go about their lives with no conflict or no problems

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ever.

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I think we should take a page out of their books in terms of how humans should go about

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their life because I think human society would be a much better place if we adhered by these

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rules.

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Anyway, bit of a sidetrack.

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So let's get into some more behaviors that make them renowned homosexuals and heteronists,

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I should say.

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The other documented behaviors include mutual genital rubbing.

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This is more often seen in females for social bonding.

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So we would call this scissoring.

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So lesbian bonobos getting their scissoring on every two hours, apparently.

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So this allows them to dominate the males in the hierarchy because the females have

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such social bonds with each other.

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They're like, fuck that little guy off.

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We're going to do it how we want to do it.

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The clitoris of the female bonobo is also more externalized and larger compared to other

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mammals in the world.

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So the female to female behavior of bonobos pressing their vulvas together is often referred

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to as genitoto-genital rubbing or GG rubbing and I call it scissoring.

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So females will rub their clitorises together rapidly for 10 to 20 seconds, which is accompanied

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by grinding, shrieking and clitoral engorgement.

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That's a fun phrase, clitoral engorgement.

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That means it swells and gets bigger with blood because it wants more blood together

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because it's getting stimulated and they want to have that orgasm experience.

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This practice is engaged in every two hours or so on average.

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So that comes from ethiologist Jonathan Balkone right there.

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So it's documented that around every two hours, the females, you know, just be like, do you

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want to like GG rub?

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And then they'll do it and have the best time of their life.

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And then they'll walk away as like sisters, sisters, not like sisters, sisters, like sisters.

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Evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuck suggests that the position of the clitoris in bonobos

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and other primates such as humans, orangutans, gorillas, monkeys has evolved to maximize

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stimulation during sexual intercourse.

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Well, that definitely checks out.

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Males also engage in various forms of male to male genital behavior, the most common

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being alike with a standard heterosexual mounting, AKA missionary.

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So someone's on the back, legs up, someone's on top, bang, bang.

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So in this position, so what will happen here is one male will be thrusting on the other

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and rubbing penises together.

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Rump rubbing occurs to express reconciliation between two males after a conflict.

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They're going back to back and rubbing their scrotal sacks together.

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Alongside this, there is tongue kissing, oral sex and genital massaging, which have all

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been recorded among male bonobos.

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So another thing that they do if there's conflict between the males, they'll be like, you know

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what, let's not fight, let's have sex.

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So imagine if like straight men in society had this level of like freedom.

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If they want to fight each other, they just stop and just rub their rumps together and

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get freaky and be done with it.

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There'd be no fighting, there'd be no wars, there'd be literal world peace.

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But unfortunately, we don't have that yet.

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The gay agenda is being pushed.

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Another page we should take out of their book, men, fix your fucking problems.

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Suck a dick, easy fix.

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So bonobos engage in sexual activity numerous times a day.

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So this is a great little example of a species that exhibits loud and proud homosexuality.

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It brings back to the main premise of this show, which I have created and the dialogue

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I want to have around it.

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It is that nature is inherently gay.

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So why did we homo sapiens become the only damn species with prejudice and vendetta against

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it?

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It's so unnatural and so stupid to me.

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And that's why I'm doing this podcast and why I'm talking about these silly little episodes

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because I want to normalize it because the more that people understand that if you look

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at nature, it is so queer and not heteronormative.

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So that's why I'm out here having a yap about it.

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There are many reasons, well, the reason why humans are prejudiced and have a vendetta

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against homosexuality is mainly because of religion and customs.

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But hey, I might go down that path today.

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But I will say this, if God or a version of God, depending on what you believe in, created

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all living things in their eyes, their image, then a group of apes orchestrating an orgy

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when they find food is pretty hedonistic example of divine power.

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So riddle me that religion.

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So thank you for listening in to today's episode.

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It was a short one, but a fun one.

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I hope you enjoyed it.

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I'll be back with some more episodes shortly.

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If you want to look at some funny reels or outtakes of recordings of the podcast that

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I feel myself, you can finally see my face if you've never seen it before.

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And as always, remember this nature is gay.

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So don't hide your DNA.

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See you next time.