OK, so this whole "pay for sex by grooming females" stuff is quite suspect to me. It has long been understood that grooming in primates is a mutually bonding exercise. If it happens more after sex that doesn't mean it is in "payment" of sex any more than it is saying that a guy is "paying" a girl for sex if he strokes her back after the event.
I would call this a quite cynical way of interpreting monkey business...
2) How do any of us know these monkeys aren't just putting on us human observers? Sort of the way some of the amerindian tribes may have been doing for the early anthropologists?
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
1.8.2008 9:03pm
Commenting on Dean's World is a privilege, not a right. Dean is your host, you are his guest, and you should behave in that fashion. Dean is not your babysitter, nor is he your punching bag. Please remember this. In general, you are free to disagree with anyone on any subject you wish, but abusive behavior will not be tolerated.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.
--|PW|--
Somebody wants to be groomed.
Yours,
Wince
*running away and hiding under the nearest rock*
I would call this a quite cynical way of interpreting monkey business...
... and so many Internet denizens end up grooming themselves ...
--|PW|--
2) How do any of us know these monkeys aren't just putting on us human observers? Sort of the way some of the amerindian tribes may have been doing for the early anthropologists?
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.