#1143 Brian Lerch: Same-Sex Sexual Behavior, Indiscriminate Sexual Behavior, Attachment, and Divorce
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Brian Lurch. He is a theoretical ecologist and evolutionary biologist who just received a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. And today we're going to talk about topics like same-sex sexual behavior, indiscriminate sexual behavior, attachment.
and divorce so Brian welcome to the show it's a pleasure to have you one yeah thank you for having me i'm excited to be here so what is same-sex sexual behavior what does it include yeah i would say that same sex sexual behavior is any um attempted apparent sexual behavior between two members of the same sex. So kind of classic examples of this would be attempted courtship between two members of the same sex or attempted copulation between two members of the same sex. It is somewhat hard to define because, you know, what do we mean by sexual can be a bit of a gray area. This is especially true because a lot of
or at least some examples of same-sex sexual behavior appear to be sexual behaviors that are co-opted for a different function. So what I mean by that is examples like we see in some mammals, bisons, some primates, where it appears that same-sex mountings are actually a dominance display. So it it it's a bit of a gray area to what extent that sexual behavior. Other examples are like from Venobo's, a really classic example, where sexual behaviors appear to be used as as a means of conflict resolution. So again, a bit of a gray area.
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