Monkeys Pay for Sex by Grooming Females

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Got this off MSNBC. SINGAPORE - Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.

"In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all," Dr. Michael Gumert, a primatologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in a telephone interview Saturday.

"It's a sign of friendship and family, and it's also something that can be exchanged for sexual services," Gumert said.

Gumert's findings, reported in New Scientist last week, resulted from a 20-month observation of about 50 long-tailed macaques in a reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Gumert found after a male grooms a female, the likelihood that she will engage in sexual activity with the male was about three times more than if the grooming had not occurred.

And as with other commodities, the value of sex is affected by supply and demand factors: A male would spend more time grooming a female if there were fewer females in the vicinity.

"And when the female supply is higher, the male spends less time on grooming ... The mating actually becomes cheaper depending on the market," Gumert said.

Other experts not involved in the study welcomed Gumert's research, saying it was a major effort in systematically studying the interaction of organisms in ways in which an exchange of commodities or services can be observed — a theory known as biological markets.

Dr. Peter Hammerstein, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin and Dr. Ronald Noe, a primatologist at the University of Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, first proposed the concept of biological markets in 1994.

"It is not a rare phenomenon in nature that males have to make some 'mating effort' in order to get a female's 'permission' to mate," Hammerstein said in an interview, likening the effort to a "fee" that the male pays.

"The interesting result of Dr. Gumert's research on macaque mating is that the mating market seems to have an influence on the amount of this fee," Hammerstein said.

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It's a hell of a lot cheaper than dinner & a movie.

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It's a hell of a lot cheaper than dinner & a movie.

Yeah, but remember on "Wild Kingdom", grooming included picking out fleas and then biting them to kill them.

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Ya' gettin' lonely up there in Montana, Rick???? You know you don't have to pay for it down here....lol (or maybe Polly's got an edge I've not seen in her before. Heh). You can always come home if you find yourself in dire straits.

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I know this is very private, but I can honestly say I never had to pull fleas out of my wife's hair to get laid. Honest. Besides, she is flealess.

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So if I have this right, the monkeys pick nits before sex.

With humans the nit picking starts after sex.

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I know this is very private, but I can honestly say I never had to pull fleas out of my wife's hair to get laid. Honest. Besides, she is flealess.

I figured she must be kinda' easy, since you threated to shoot anyone who might sneak into your house at night to give you a blow job...lol.

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Yep.

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A buddy once told me I couldn't get laid in a Monkey whore house with a bag full of bananas.

Only the good die young, so I have found immortality,

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A buddy once told me I couldn't get laid in a Monkey whore house with a bag full of bananas.

Well, was he right or wrong?

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A buddy once told me I couldn't get laid in a Monkey whore house with a bag full of bananas.

Did he say anything about putting a condom on each one?

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A buddy once told me I couldn't get laid in a Monkey whore house with a bag full of bananas.

Money talks, bananas walk.

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I'm still curious if his friend was right or if he proved him wrong.

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So, admittedly, it's a dangerous parallel and I shouldn't even go there . . . but, given that it's dz.com and better judgment is left at the door. . . .

I'm not saying that this will get you the same results, but having a man brush your hair can be VERY sexy.

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I;m going to go away for a while and see how this turns out later.

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So, admittedly, it's a dangerous parallel and I shouldn't even go there . . . but, given that it's dz.com and better judgment is left at the door. . . .

I'm not saying that this will get you the same results, but having a man brush your hair can be VERY sexy.

Imagining a man brushing Rick's hair makes me vomit a little. Please don't go there again...lol.

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Yeah . . . I know, I know!

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So, admittedly, it's a dangerous parallel and I shouldn't even go there . . . but, given that it's dz.com and better judgment is left at the door. . . .

I'm not saying that this will get you the same results, but having a man brush your hair can be VERY sexy.

Imagining a man brushing Rick's hair makes me vomit a little. Please don't go there again...lol.

linz

YIKES! See??! I knew it was a dangerous place to go.

Sorry . . . didn't mean to kill the thread.

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Every male pays for sex in one way or another, it is never free.

So i just broke up with this woman who wasn't even my girlfriend!

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I have never had sexual relations with that Monkey,,,,,,,,,,,,,
spanked one once.

Only the good die young, so I have found immortality,

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So, admittedly, it's a dangerous parallel and I shouldn't even go there . . . but, given that it's dz.com and better judgment is left at the door. . . .

I'm not saying that this will get you the same results, but having a man brush your hair can be VERY sexy.

Imagining a man brushing Rick's hair makes me vomit a little. Please don't go there again...lol.

linz

YIKES! See??! I knew it was a dangerous place to go.

Sorry . . . didn't mean to kill the thread.

Well, you know these doctors can prescribe their own drugs. Wonder what she's on tonight. As for brushing a woman's hair, I don't think a "bam,bam, thank you mam" kind of guy would take the time. It would be a nice personal thing to do to a lady you really care about. Rule #1 of course: she must be flealess. Thank you Linz.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

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Yeah, it takes some of the charm away if there are fleas involved . . . but at that point, I think you have bigger personal problems than charm.

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This is gross. It's like popping SO's pimples. Ewwwww

Be yourself!
MooOOooOoo

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Yes.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

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Wonder what she's on tonight.

I'm not on anything, Rick. Didn't you know that I already quit the hard drugs???

Just trying to protect your cute little ass from the boys....

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