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A couple of quick things, a few items of interest I wanted to share with you briefly before we start this week's show.

Thing number one, science confirms something your gay friends have always known.

Sex is not just for reproduction.

Scientists studying bonobos and chimps are closest living primate relatives report that most

of the sex bonobos and chimps have most of the time is for fun.

They have sex to experience pleasure, to cement social bonds, to reduce stress,

and to resolve conflicts. Make up sex, not just a human thing, as it turns out.

Extrapolating from our sexual behavior and the sexual behavior of bonobos and chimps,

species we split from somewhere between six and ten million years ago, scientists believe they theorize that our

shared common ancestors also fucked around mostly for fun. This, of course, is my favorite

kind of science, not just a study that confirms one of my priors, but a study that confirms

what may be my oldest prior. Sex is for fun.

That was something I realized when I was a teenager and straight people were telling me that being

gay was wrong because sex was about reproduction.

Sex was about making babies, but those same straight people were all taking birth control

pills and using condoms and diaphragms and getting vasectomies in a desperate effort to avoid making babies

while they had their fun but this isn't just a study that confirms one of

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