Does A Bull Make Love For Pleasure Or Pain
Relief?
Why does a bull engage in sex? And or what influence - beside testosterone -
is important for a great ape to make love?
Perhaps these questions are relevant to understand
rape - a common sexual behavior- in the animal kingdom and to explain diverse scientific
evidence which also suggest bulls , horses and apes routinely rape their female
partners .
Of psychological importance, neither an aroused
bull nor a cow in heat, seems to be driven to make love by romantic urges. Or
we can say that in the animal kingdom “pleasure
seeking” does not seem to matter in sexual relations.
The crucial force? Pain and an urgent desire for relief from suffering.
This observation could easily be confirmed
by studying sex in many animals as diverse as cattle and horses or pigs and
chimpanzees etc.
Today, thanks to science, we know that mammalian
voluntary body functions (bowel movement, urination , eating ) are prompted by some bodily discomfort. Hence , it seems natural for
sexual acts as well to be elicited by pain.
Yes, pain - from swollen genitals - is probably the single most important
motivator for animal sexual behavior. I suppose, It will be difficult not to
empathize with a bull in pain – an unhappy bull with swollen testicles –
desperate to find a soft harbor for his limb on fire.
A horny bull is an angry bull. And it is
true that In general anger and stress fuel aggression. Furthermore , on our
planet big fish eat small fish and power
rules . Thus, the natural laws do seem
to promote rape as routine behavior for bulls, horses, big apes etc .
A curious student of
science may ask. How about the females of our animal kingdom?
Science suggests cows horses and apes do
seek sexual encounters mediated by their own physiology and evolution. However, two observations about mammalian sex
are worthy of emphasis . A male and not
a female determines the timing and a female never rapes.
