Understanding the complexity of human sexual behavior. The biological significance of homosexuality

This is a fascinating essay filled with important and instructive ideas, lucid prose, and seductive reasoning. It provides some surprising insights, based on a comparison of male violence among humans and among man's closest relatives, the primates. In the monosexual great ape societies, male violence is common: male orangutans tend to rape, male chimps wage war, and male gorillas kill the offspring of other males. Only in the pansexual species, i.e., bonobos, are males non-violent. Sexology researchers Alfred Kinsey and his associates created a scale that describes a person's sexual orientation. On this scale, 0 means completely heterosexual, while 6 represents purely homosexual. The author believes all people are bisexual and simply have varying degrees of it, and the Kinsey scale describes a person's bisexual history. Despite misconceptions, only the pansexuality requires that a person be attracted equally to both sexes.