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Subject: Animals that have sex with themselves

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 07/ 8/03 9:25am
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Another attempt to get to the bottom of it all." on 07/ 7/03 12:23am

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>But that is the deviation rather than the norm (the
>substantial majority is between different sexes). In
>cases like these, the term "natural" can be difficult
>to define precisely, but I think its meaning in
>context here is fairly straightforward. Sex of course
>is used for procreation, and that there are instances
>where procreation is not the focus is a good point to
>bring up. Nonetheless, one could still argue that
>"nature" actually "intends" it to be done via two
>individuals of the opposite sex (after all, this is
>how procreation is made).

I'm not so sure about two sexes procreating being the norm. If numbers are what define the norm, then cells going through meiosis is the norm. There are also quite a number of hermaphorditic creatures that reproduce at will. They have the option of exchanging gentic material with another male/female creature, but don't have to.

Homosexuality is also pretty common in nature, especially when populations get out of control. "Deviation from the norm" seems to me in your case to be drawn from whatever it is humans have to do to procreate. We are a big minority on this planet.

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