No.
I claimed that gay animals don't shove it in eachothers arse. And that homosexual inclination is purely biolgical/genetic and has nothing to do with choice.
Sorry dude, many animal species engage in anal intercourse.
There is no such thing as homosexual inclination. There is homosexuality, a same-sex attraction, and homosexual behaviour, same-sex sexual behaviours including kissing, stroking, caressing, mutual stimulation of sexual organs, etc. And before you launch off, sexual behaviours of all kinds are exhibited in over 150 species of animals, not just humans.
You always have a choice, if you have the will. That's what makes you human.
There is a very long and drawn out argument with me citing many different genes and many different examples here that actually argues there is no such thing as free will, but I'll skip the details and give you the summary:
Your genes specify a certain range of behaviours that you are most likely to engage in from birth. These genetic combinations cause you to gravitate toward or actively seek certain environments. Environmental stimuli feed back on your genetics, altering gene expression into a further constrictive pattern which narrows the environmental and behavioural choices you make even further. It's an infinite feedback loop, essentially. While choice may be theoretically infinite, practically speaking we all are given only a very narrow set of choices which our genotype ultimately determiens at birth, and which further reinforce our gene expression and behaviours.
Free will is nonsense. Sure, I have the physical ability to go out and rob a bank tomorrow, but my personality is such that I won't. Of course, I might if it were necessary for the survival of a family member, but that's another personality-determined choice, not a matter of free will.
There's actually a good academic paper on the subject which I can track down the reference for if anyone wants to dig through it.
And on a slightly lighter-hearted note, I keep hearing about studies regarding gay animals, but I've never seen one covering lesbian critters. I assume the studies are out there, so where are they?
Gay is just lay terminology. Most academic papers study homosexual behaviour or homosexuality, and "both" sexes (we'll assume dichotomy for simplicities sake, even if it's not at all accurate) are studied. I saw a paper a few weeks back on same-sex behaviour among the females of a particular monkey species.
Fruit flies study primarily male flies because females don't really have much of a sexual drive, and the genes that control homosexual behaviour have specifically active variants in males. It's only male persistence that actually allows Drosophila species to reproduce =) That said, there are a couple Drosophila mutations that cause the females to get rather frisky and start acting like males, which can be good for a laugh if you're a fly geneticist (and for the record, I'm not).
