Can homosexuality and procreation both be natural.?

Answer 1

Yes.

Homosexuality does not prevent anyone from having children. Sex is not necessary for impregnation.

Homosexuality is found in hundreds of species. Check out the book biological Exuberance. Even without modern conveniences like a sperm bank, species that exhibit homosexuality are still fine.

Answer 2

If you're talking about natural selection rather than pro-creation then I would say no.

The thoery behind natural selection explains why men are wired to sow their wild oats with females who appear to be genetically superior and would therefore make good stock when it comes to breeding.

And why women are attracted to the alpha male.

Whilst there may be some truth in that, it doesn't explain why humans engage in sexual behaviour for no other reason than the physical pleasure involved nor does it explain the bonding that happens between a pair of human beings on an emotional and intellectual level.

Therfore, if something doesn't explain the contradictions that don't fit the thoery then it is the thoery that is wrong and has to be reworked.

What is is! and homosexuality exists in nature therefore it is natural.

Louise

Answer 3

Yes.

I doubt people or animals have a "procreative instinct" per se. Think about the level of abstract thought a desire to procreate involves. You have to realize that if you have sex with someone they will give birth nine months later. I think animals and earliest man probably just do/did sex because it felt really good.

It can feel just as good with a person of the same sex as with a person of the opposite sex.

I suspect humans probably have some in-wired visual cues for attraction that draw them more toward the opposite sex, but being willing to hump people of your own sex isn't a big survival disadvantage unless you actually prefer it to doing it with the opposite sex, so evolution didn't weed the trait out. So bisexuality, at least, is probably perfectly natural.

I'm not sure about exclusive homosexuality. I figure it's probably the result of environment. Or maybe they're an evolutionary dead-end that's just the result of natural variation within the population.

Answer 4

Yes.

I wonder if lurking beneath your question is the thought that, perhaps homosexuality might not be 'natural' because homosexual acts don't lead to procreation? If that question is, indeed lurking there, then how would you answer to straight people using birth control? Or straight people having recreational sex of any kind, including any kind of non-vaginal intercourse? If, by following the question I suspect is lurking in the shadows, procreation is the be-all and end-all of sexual acts, then why doesn't every heterosexual act result in pregnancy? Could you imagine the terrible situation we would be in if this were true?

Answer 5

Sure. It's diversity, nature requires diversity.

Homogenization is the only unnatural thing.

Oh and gay men and lesbians can still procreate, many do, it's only a myth that says we're somehow magically infertile. We may not be able to have accidental kids, but we can have as many planned kids as we want really.

And yes, it could even be done before IVF treatments, all you need is sperm, eggs, and a womb.

Answer 6

Human beings are part of nature, therefore anyhting we do is natural. Some things in nature are despicable, rape, paedophilia etc. But these are only bad to human beings.
Everything we do is natural, its human vaules that decide whether its wrong or not.

Answer 7

Of course. Consider ants and bees: Only the queen and handful of drones reproduce, yet their colonies number in the thousands each.

Answer 8

Yes, of course.

Humans are of nature, and in nature; nothing a human being can do can possibly be unnatural.

Answer 9

Yes - just watch some nature programmes

Answer 10

Yes, Just take the two male swans who have mated for life on the river Thames