Male Monkeys 'Pay' Females for Sex, Study Finds

fox news ^ | 1/3/2007 | fox news

[tobyhill]

Mating may be a natural instinct, but monkey business doesn't come free for male macaques who have to "pay" females for their affections, the AFP reported Wednesday.

According to the report, a study of the primates conducted by Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found that the male monkeys must first groom the female before she will permit sex. The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female, the study found.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I'll have you know a true lady's favors cannot be bought, even with diamonds (unless they're a minimum 3ct with VS1 clarity and F color . . . ).

[Larry Lucido]

LOL!!

[DaveyB]

I think the researchers might be projecting here. They do not know what the monkeys are thinking - they could have just as well concluded that the males wanted to groom the females and the females demanded sex after as a means of currency. Or that grooming is a form of foreplay that builds the intimacy and trust culminated in sex or that even monkeys don’t want a skanky mate.

[MrEdd]

In 2008 fox news makes an astounding discovery that somehow had eluded mankind for thousands of years.

Animals have courtship rituals. If only Aesop had known that.

[Larry Lucido]

I’ll be more impressed when the monkeys learn that you aren’t paying for the sex, you are paying for the girl to leave afterward.

[Fixit]

So now foreplay equals payment?

I'm not buying it!

</pun>

[svcw]

Male primates paying for sexual favors - why did they need to do a study on this so obvious a fact.

[sure_fine]

” The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female, the study found.”

do these morons actually get paid for reports like that?

[Sacajaweau]

It's called foreplay...

Scientists "prove" what they want to prove. Then another scientist steps us to disprove what the first scientist "proved".

Hell, we're still working Einstein over!!

It's called "Grant Money".

[Polybius]

“The most expensive sex you ever have is the sex you don’t have to pay for”

"Johns don't pay prostitutes for sex, they pay them to leave."

[tobyhill]

I would groom some of the info babes at Fox.

[Clint N. Suhks]

VS1? If you can’t see the flaw with the naked eye you can splurge on the color.
Forget “F”, go for SI1 “D”! Tis more sparkly...

[Larry Lucido]

Beat ya at #25!

[Sacajaweau]

I believe they “proved” the same thing with Penguins and their pebble offering.

[Larry Lucido]

Everything has its price.

[woollyone]

LMBO!

[tobyhill]

ROTFLMAO! That is too funny.

[the Real fifi]

SOunds more like obligatory foreplay than payment to me.

[the Real fifi]

SOunds more like obligatory foreplay than payment to me.

[going hot]

Perhaps the males were grooming the females as a service, for which the payment was sex afterwards. :-)