As I return to the east coast, 50 years or so after the 1960s (and its sexual revolutions) and 150 years after Darwin,

I wonder about sexuality as human primates ... and in modernity and the information technology age.

These are some of my current narratives about them, and comparatively especially with humans (but see these blog for other related narratives; I'm not a primatologist, but an anthropologist interested in the highest primates closest to us and what we can learn from them)...


Bonobo chimpanzee - very sexual in many many combinations or ways, peaceful/nonharming, matriarchal and egalitarian

Common chimpanzee - have alpha males, have intense aggression between groups that can be lethal, possibly primitive war

Orangutan - semi-solitary (very smart)

Gorilla - harems? ... most similar to the modern nuclear family (see Castells in this blog too, sociologically)?

Humans - fluent language users, symbolic, STEM-centric ...

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I've read there are about 376 species of higher primates. All have been sexual as mammals for many millions of years ...

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In my thinking, humans are most like common chimpanzees, all 7 billion of us, since we do war (with the many tragedies that ensue from this) ...

Chimps & Bonobos

http://www.eva.mpg.de/3chimps/files/apes.htm

Gorillas (conducted by Martha Robbins)

More Sumatran orangutans than previously thought

Eastern cottonhead rabbit: Building on John Money’s exigencies in his section on “Concepts of Determinism” to inform a new kind of theory for talk psychotherapy and study of this clinically, What could such developments add to current outcomes, and especially in terms of diagnoses, as well as in terms of happiness-generation? {e.g engage music, engage loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, engage Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," plus, ... as well as strategy vis-a-vis these exigencies to do so ?}, Develop this in the psychiatry department of Friends' Hospital in Philadelphia (in the context of medicine, psychiatry and Quakers)?, Here's Michael First, the author of the DSM V, in VIDEO talking about its recent publication - DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis: Meet the Author, "Psychiatry,""Psychology,""Psychotherapy," as well as the "Hospital" wiki subjects at WUaS

Bonobo chimpanzee: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bonobo_chimpanzee

Orangutan: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Orangutan

Primatology: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Primatology

Sexuality: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sexuality