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...feature of the bonobo's forest environment offers a possible clue: fruit trees that produce an unusual abundance of food in a small area. This brings large numbers of bonobos into closer social contact than is typical for common chimpanzees. The presence of food can stimulate competition among the apes, and the larger the group the greater the danger of conflict. Frances White of Duke University argues that at these crucial times, sexual encounters reinforce bonds, particularly among females, helping individual apes to maintain access to food. Frans de Waal, the author of Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes...
...nonsense. They insist that bisexuality is not a walk on the wild side or a run from reality but has a legitimate identity of its own. Explains John Craig, a 40-year-old writer in Amherst, Mass., who organizes weekend retreats for bisexual men: "I want to experience contact with a man's body and with a woman's body. That's just a basic part...
Unlike many other unions, says Graduate Schoolof Design library assistant Emily Scudder,Harvard's does not rely on newsletters and otherliterature to convey its news. Instead, "theybelieve in person-to-person contact, and thatevery member means something to the union," shesaid...
Already American physicians are seeing more women with HIV. In many AIDS clinics in San Francisco and New York City, women make up 30% to 50% of all new patients. About half of them became infected through heterosexual contact. They range from very well educated to barely literate, but most of them say | they had no idea that their sexual partners had engaged in high-risk behavior. In fact, because AIDS is still thought of as a gay man's disease in the U.S., many women discover that they are infected only after they have passed the virus...
...think numbers are the way to figure it, or economics either. I think love is the way to get a handle on it." In Sees' discussion of her own sticky emotional entanglements, she brings ethnic groups that are too often seen as separate, inviolate groups into close contact. She writes of her husband, friends, lovers and children of various racial groups in a reminiscence that is intelligent, caring and sometimes humorously biting...