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To the contrary, anyone who's seen a herd of bulls when the cows are in heat knows there's a big difference between boys and girls -- and that the difference is principally nature, not nurture. Testosterone is powerful stuff.


But you're also comparing animals to humans. Sometimes you can't even compare humans to humans. There are matriarchal societies out there (albiet few).


Humans ARE animals. The only thing humans do that animals don't is abstract reasoning. But the whole span of love and sex are covered pretty well by other animals, and the physiological and even psychological mechanisms are pretty much the same across the bored.


Maybe I should have been more clear. You're comparing between species.

  > But the whole span of love and sex are covered
  > pretty well by other animals, and the physiological
  > and even psychological mechanisms are pretty much
  > the same across the bored.
I think that different things are covered by different animals. You can aggregate the whole body of 'non-human animals' to say that 'animals in general are the same as humans with respect to how they approach their sex lives.'


Humans are far more like bonobos than bovine. And there... not so much difference between male and female.




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