bonobos--horniest chimps

[Jim Strong]

All I ever wanted to know about bonobos. Obviously
they aren't Promise Keepers ... 
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Billy Jim
 
--- Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >From: meadow <meadow@austin.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: meadow@austin.rr.com
> >To: telebob x <telebob98@hotmail.com>
> >CC: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> >Subject: Re: Is Roger chicken or egg?
> >Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:22:50 -0600
> >
> >i'm still mulling the bonobos.  without a
> dictionary, does anyone know what
> >they are?
> >d
> 
> Dian, Bonobos are sex-maniacs, closest cousins to
> humanoids, and their 
> behavior could be the key to world peace :
> 
> 
>     The Horniest Apes on Earth:   The  Bonobo Way ,
> Peace Through Pleasure
> 
>                                                  by
> Susan Block, Ph.D.
> 
> Deep in the soul of the hot, wet swamps of the
> Congo, there is a tribe. It 
> is here, in their wild erotic Garden of Eden, in the
> middle of war-torn 
> territory, that our closest cousins, the bonobos,
> live and share a powerful kind of pleasure, and make
> an extraordinary kind 
> of love.
> 
>                                      Just in case
> you don't know a bonobo 
> from a bonsai tree, bonobos, classified as Pan
> paniscus,are also called 
> pygmy chimpanzees in primatology circles. We call
> them the hornies apes on 
> Earth. Some scientists say they're closer
> to humans than common chimps, though that's
> debatable. They certainly look 
> more like us, with their longer legs, smaller ears
> and more open
>                                      faces with
> higher foreheads. Sexually 
> speaking,the genitals of bonobo females are rotated
> forward
> like those of human females, so that they can have
> face-to-face sex rather 
> than just "doggie    style," with the male mounting
> from behind, like  most 
> other primates. Basically, bonobos can do
>   "it" in almost as many positions as we can, and
> they do do it--a lot.   
> Bonobos have some kind of sex almost every day,
> usually several times a day.
> 
> Females are in heat for three-quarters of
> their cycle, and many of them copulate
> even when not in heat, a sexual pattern
> more like human females than that of any
> other mammal. Though common
> chimpanzees only partake in basic
> reproductive sex, bonobos share all kinds
> of sexual pleasures, including cunnilingus,
> fellatio, masturbation, massage,
> bisexuality, incest, body-licking, sex in
> different positions, group sex, and lots of
> long, deep, wet, soulful, French kissing.
> 
> Like tantric sex practitioners, or just like
> two people very much in love, copulating
> bonobos often look deeply into each
> other's eyes.
> 
> 
> Such loving passion, such sexual dexterity, such
> clever, horny playfulness 
> is found nowhere
> else on Earth except among certain humans.
> 
> But that's not all that makes our kissin' cousins,
> the bonobos, so worthy of 
> our
> attention-worthy enough to be our official mascots
> here at the Dr. Susan 
> Block Institute
> (we even call our staff the "Bonobo Gang"). It's not
> just how they have sex, 
> but how they
> use sex-- to maintain friendly relationships, to
> ease stress (e.g., Don't be 
> nervous, come
> here and sit on my face), as a form of commercial
> exchange (e.g., I'll give 
> you a blowjob if
> you give me a banana), and to reduce violent
> conflict. That is, they seem to 
> use sex to make
> peace. And that, in a coconut shell, is why we love
> bonobos.
>                                 Scientific
> observation has revealed that 
> social
>                                 interactions among
> bonobos are far less 
> hostile than
>                                 among common chimps.
> This is not to say that 
> bonobos
>                                 never fight; they
> just do so a lot less. 
> Unlike common
>                                 chimps (and humans,
> of course), bonobos have 
> never
>                                 been observed
> deliberately killing members 
> of their own
>                                 species. Among
> bonobos observed both in the 
> wild and
>                                 in captivity, sex
> and mutual pleasure are 
> keys to
>                                 keeping the peace,
> reinforcing social 
> relations based
>                                 upon the give and
> take of sensual, erotic 
> pleasure rather
>                                 than on pain and
> force and fear.
> 
> Apparently, all that hot sex just cools 'em out.
> 
> 
> The power behind this astonishingly peaceful, highly
> erotic "paradise" lies in bonobo social
> organization.
> Unlike common chimps and the other great apes,
> bonobo society is not male dominated. Females are on
> essentially equal footing with the boys. "Female
> power
> is the sine qua non of bonobo life," writes Dr.
> Richard
> Wrangham in Demonic Males, "the magic key to their
> world." Female bonobos have strong relationships
> with
> each other, creating a chimp version of "solidarity"
> or
> "sisterhood," even though adult females in any one
> group are generally not sisters, or blood-related at
> all.
> Bonobo female solidarity helps to keep the males in
> line; if a male is so arrogant as to attack a
> female, her
> "sisters" will all jump on him. By contrast, the
> males
> almost never form alliances with each other, either
> to
> defend themselves or attack females.  Bonobo
> "ladies" strengthen their 
> friendships through "lesbian" sex, frequently
> performing
> what researchers call "genito-genital rubbing." The
> Mogandu people have a 
> much more
> appealing, expressive name for this act of rapidly
> rubbing their large 
> sensitive clitorises and
> labia against each other: hoka-hoka. Sounds like a
> sexy sort of dance, 
> doesn't it? That's
> what it looks like, the bonobo tango, but it's quick
> vulva-to-vulva action 
> rather than slow
> cheek-to-cheek. Bonobo females grow closer to each
> other as they do the 
> hoka-hoka,
> consolidating their social connections along with
> their orgasms. These 
> highly sexed
> females are also far more likely to initiate sex
> with the males than any 
> other great ape females (including humans!). So the
> bonobo guys get a pretty 
> good deal: Give the ladies
> some respect, and get plenty of sex, all year
> 'round.
> 
> Moreover, since the males do get plenty of
>                                        sex-from
> confident, horny females wh 
> disguise their ovulation time-they don't compete
> with each other so much. 
> That is,  male bonobos don't seem to partake in the
> deadly "wars," raiding parties and other acts of ape
> "terrorism" 
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