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Rumpus Book ClubNo Meat For Sex?
First they said that monkeys do pay for sex, but only in a lab, and once they’ve been taught to use currency. Or maybe, it turned out, that wild macaques do it too, trading services instead of coins. What services? A little grooming, maybe some hunting.
Apparently, this phenomenon has been given the appetizing appellation”meat for sex” in the primatological literature. I guess that refers to the hunting part mostly. But a new study suggests it’s not true! But let’s not let the pendulum swing too far back here. I mean, we can’t let one little study come between us and our prurient notions about our simian friends, can we?
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