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Sunday, December 02, 2007

The bonobo society

Here's a non-violent approach to social life from our dear cousins. This is where "Make love not war" came from. Bonobos are chimpanzees. The following is quoted from Wikipedia.

Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded
by the females in exchange for food. Bonobos are the only non-human
apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual
activities: face-to-face genital sex (most frequently female-female, then male-female and male-male), tongue kissing, and oral sex.[15] In scientific literature, the female-female sex is often referred to as GG rubbing or genital-genital rubbing, while male-male sex is sometimes referred to as penis fencing.[16]

Speaking of violence, I haven't watched AlJazeera for like 3 months ..