Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn

An anonymous reader writes "Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys. He'll also pay to see dominant monkeys. But you'll have to pay him to look at inferior monkeys. That's the upshot of a study out of Duke that was designed to explore the 'social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.' Next up -- seriously -- the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack (sans the monkey business)."

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Re:Humans already do this

[Anonymous Coward]

but males in sports always start hugging eachother in celebration when they win something. What other time would they do that? There's a subtle sexualisation of contact when a single-gender group with comradary is together and separate from the other gender. This is why certain social groups are full of bisexuals, like Arab males and teenage Spanish and Italian females.