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Who's saying that homosexuality is against nature?



An article in magazine Nature (October 26, 2006, pg. 895) called "Snapshot: But is it natural?" by Alison Abbott and the recent exhibition "Against nature" in the Naturhistorisk Museum in Oslo proofs the opposite.

"We hope to reject the all too well known argument that homosexual behaviour is a crime against nature"

<Oslo Natural History Museum>




Sex in general between animals (as between humans) is often a matter of enjoyment, rather than reproduction, and that this applies to animals of the same sex as well as opposite sexes. Homosexuality has been observed among 1500 species.


"Our closest relatives

Humans belong to the primates together with two species of chimpanzees, gorilla, orang-utan, siamang and gibbons. Homosexuality is known from all groups, but there are great variations between species regarding gender, age and frequency, and even from group to group within the species. Compared to the other apes, human homosexuality is neither extremely frequent, nor particularly rare, and in our species too, the practice varies from one culture to the next

Against nature?
The Church Council of Nablus in 1120 AD wrote the first law where homosexuality was labelled a “Crime against Nature”. In the Renaissance, such texts found their way into the laws of many countries, leading to widespread oppression against homosexuality on the basis that it is “unnatural”.

We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear: Homosexuality is found throughout the Animal Kingdom. It is not against nature."

<Oslo Natural History Museum>

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