Is Your Dog Gay?

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Moeliker CW (9 November 2001). "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" (PDF). Deinsea. 8 (2001): 243–247 . Retrieved 6 October 2014. Dogs and humans have different definitions of sexuality, so dogs cannot be gay by the human definition of sexual orientation. In fact, dogs don’t have a sexual orientation; they pretty much do what they want when they want. Humans can be tormented about their sexual orientation, which can be intertwined with society, family issues, and stigma. Dogs don’t really care about that. They aren’t evolved enough to understand or feel specific sexual attraction towards one sex. MacFarlane, Geoff R.; Vasey, Paul L. (1 May 2016). "Promiscuous primates engage in same-sex genital interactions". Behavioural Processes. 126: 21–26. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.02.016. ISSN 0376-6357.

Zuk M (22 November 2011). "Same-sex insects: what do bees-or at least flies-have to tell us about homosexuality?". Natural History. 119 (10): 22. Cole CJ, Townsend CR (9 May 2005). "Parthenogenetic lizards as vertebrate systems". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 256 (S4): 174–176. doi: 10.1002/jez.1402560436. PMID 1974787. Wells RS (1995). "Community structure of Bottlenose Dolphins near Sarasota, Florida". Paper presented at the 24th International Ethological Conference, Honoluly, Hawaii. Male dogs humping other male dogs is not uncommon. In fact, female dogs hump male dogs and other female dogs. Your dog might even hump things like plush toys, furniture, cats, or an occasional human leg. Dogs hump for many reasons, and they are not all of sexual nature.Interestingly, researchers have noted that these sheep have a smaller hypothalamus than their heterosexually oriented counterparts. This is consistent with other research, which has documented the same phenomenon in human men. Does It Matter If Your Dog Is Gay? a b Moskowitz C (19 May 2008). "Homosexuality Common in the Wild, Scientists Say". Fox News . Retrieved 2 July 2008. Stanford CB (1998). "The social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos". Current Anthropology. 39 (4): 399–407. doi: 10.1086/204757. S2CID 8452514. Savolainen, Vincent (2016). "Evolution of Homosexuality". Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer Publishing. pp.1–8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3403-1. ISBN 978-3-319-16999-6. S2CID 220448278.

Anna Wilson (Spring 2003). "Sexing the Hyena: Intraspecies Readings of the Female Phallus". Signs. University of Chicago Press. 28 (3): 755–790. doi: 10.1086/345320. S2CID 146640802.But these animals rarely form long-term bonds, and tend to have short relationships with their partners. It is only by considering animals that form long-term pair bonds that we can see reasonable analogies for humans. But once again, examples of homosexual behavior abound.

Grueter CC, Stoinski TS (11 May 2016). "Homosexual Behavior in Female Mountain Gorillas: Reflection of Dominance, Affiliation, Reconciliation or Arousal?". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0154185. Bibcode: 2016PLoSO..1154185G. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154185. PMC 4864209. PMID 27167861.But things really get interesting when you move up to our close relatives. Macaques (medium-sized primates native to Asia) often exhibit lesbian tendencies, and bonobo chimps (our closest living relatives) take sexual freedom to a whole other level. Yamamoto D, Fujitani K, Usui K, Ito H, Nakano Y (May 1998). "From behavior to development: genes for sexual behavior define the neuronal sexual switch in Drosophila". Mechanisms of Development. 73 (2): 135–46. doi: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00042-2. PMID 9622612. S2CID 14531382. Dogs that exhibit same-sex attraction live long, happy, healthy lives, just like their heterosexually oriented counterparts. Aside from the tiny sliver of their life that is devoted to sex and attraction, they’re no different than any other dog. They want to sleep on the couch, eat everything in the house and catch that squirrel living in the tree outside. Dixson, Alan (19 August 2010), "Homosexual behaviour in primates", Animal Homosexuality, Cambridge University Press, pp.381–400 , retrieved 22 October 2023

a b c Scharf I, Martin OY (2013). "Same-sex sexual behavior in insects and arachnids: prevalence, causes, and consequences". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67 (11): 1719–1730. doi: 10.1007/s00265-013-1610-x. S2CID 10899013.de Waal FB (2001). "Bonobos and Fig Leaves". The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist. Basic Books. ISBN 978-84-493-1325-7. Dominance: While mounting can just be a playful act, it can also be a show of dominance over another dog. This is especially common in older dogs. If it occurs frequently or in response to many different stimuli, it can be a sign that your dog does not know how to properly socialize. This behavior can usually be lessened by proper training, especially if begun at an early age! In wild little brown bats ( Myotis lucifugus), males often mount other males (and females) during late autumn and winter, when many of the mounted individuals are torpid. [21] 35% of matings during this period are homosexual. [75] These coercive copulations usually include ejaculation and the mounted bat often makes a typical copulation call consisting of a long squawk. [21] Similarly, in hibernacula of the common noctule ( Nyctalus noctula), active males were observed to wake up from lethargy on a warm day and engage in mating with lethargic males and (active or lethargic) females. The lethargic males, like females, called out loudly and presented their buccal glands with opened mouth during copulation. [21] Young LC, Zaun BJ, Vanderwerf EA (August 2008). "Successful same-sex pairing in Laysan albatross". Biology Letters. 4 (4): 323–5. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0191. PMC 2610150. PMID 18505710. Yes! Although there isn’t enough scientific evidence to say this definitively, I believe there are enough examples in nature of animals choosing to spend time and engage in sexual activity to hypothesise that some dogs may do so too.