in written form who wished to remain anonymous. But it seemed like a question that it would

be good to have you answer. "I have a question about homosexuality," he asks. "If the purpose

of a species is to reproduce and survive, how would it make sense evolutionarily for

humans to have same sex preferences? Are humans the only ones who practice homosexuality?

And if so does this mean that homosexuality is a product of human’s personal whim as

opposed to instinct?"

So when I was growing up there was this controversial and super bestselling book called The Naked

Ape. And this guy, the author, Desmond Morris claimed, I guess he documented that there

is homosexual behavior among primates. And from what I remember – I haven’t read

it in many years – was chimpanzees and Bonobo’s exhibit homosexual behavior. And the answer

nowadays we give to everybody about this is it’s a spectrum. I don’t know about you

but I have known a great many gay men who are married, who have babies, who have kids.

So apparently – I’m not an authority on this. I’m an observer of the human condition.

Apparently there’s a spectrum. Some people are more inclined to have sex with people

of their same sex than others. And I think if you just watch the news right now you can

see that for yourself. And so being somewhere on the spectrum of heterosexual with homosexual

being on that it’s not genetically lethal, you still have kids anyway. And you’ll hear

people talk about the feminine side. You’ll hear people talk about the masculine side.

You’ll hear women use the expression well she’s got a lot of balls which can’t literally

be true if we’re using balls in that conventional construction. So I would say that it’s something

that happens in nature and I remember very well in this book – now I haven’t read

it in a long time but man it was a big deal. Openly talking about sex in the 1960s was

a big deal that he claimed that there was more homosexuality in zoos than he observed

in nature. And that may be just because we happen to capture a couple of homosexual Bonobos

or whatever. In other words the sample size is way too small to extrapolate. So let’s

celebrate being alive everybody. Apparently it’s just something that happens in nature

and look, we’re all here.