Animals like Sex
Sex Education and Religious Deprogramming
By: Mark Schmid
Version: 2010.02.11
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In connection with this work I encounter many people, mostly members or supporters of animal welfare or animal rights organizations, who believe very firmly, that animals do not like sex. They believe that unlike humans, non-human animals have sex only to reproduce and that they carry out sexual activities just like robots, incapable of enjoying them, or feeling anything thereby, as purely involuntary instinctual activities taking control of their bodies. Just like Descartes, the world's most famous vivisectionist though about pain.
That's why the title of this article originally was "Animals like Sex", just as it is now. Then I though, wait, that's an inaccurate generalization in the very delicate topic of sexuality, which in my eyes is a big offense. After all, there certainly are some animals, some individuals, some genders of some species, who at least sometimes do not like sex.
Consequently I changed the title to "Sexuality is a Part of Life".
Then, recently I had an encounter with an administrator of the internet forum of the Animal Liberation Front, a somewhat militant animal "rights" organization which obviously to supports animal castration. Before kicking me out of their forum because of my views on castration, she told me "Animals don't like sex!". And, just like Descartes, that I was supposedly falsely projecting human feelings, in this case feelings of enjoyment of sex, onto animals. And she was very convinced of this. So now I came to realize, the original title was right, even if it's not always true for each gender, species or individual.
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