Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "Why be gay ...?" Message-ID: <719@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 18:30:42 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.719 Posted: Fri Jun 8 18:30:42 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 01:38:56 EDT References: <1177@drux3.UUCP>, <757@pucc-h> <903@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 10 >From cher@ihuxi: Homosexuality appears to be a perversion (no negative or any other connotation here) of one of the basic human instincts. Object of the sexual drive (and its ultimate purpose) differs from original. ---- Its not clear what you mean by the "original" purpose of sex. Animal behaviors don't necessarily have a purpose. They come about randomly, and those which promote the species survive. There is a theory that homosexuality, in other species as well as humans, does have a survival value as a promoter of tribalism, rather than