Bonobo Message 4 Peace

Before we let the last bonobo disappear into the mists of extinction, humanity could learn from their non-violent conflict resolution before the madmen oil tyrant/religious extremists self-fulfill their prophecy of their own taxpayer funded military nuclear armageddon..

The bonobo is closely related to the chimpanzee, yet bonobos' social structure differs greatly as these gentle apes don't resort to violence when compared to their more aggressive cousins the chimpanzees across the river..

Humans have seen warfare for thousands of years before GW Bush appeared on the scene as chief nuclear warheadmonger, from the Mesopotamians to Roman and British imperialism, now most obvious in the Bush/Saudi Royalty/Sharon rightwing extremists who sacrifice thousands and millions of human beings for their petroleum profits..

Meanwhile the bonobos in the congo rainforest are having their own problems with poachers killing them for bushmeat. Diamond mining and other corporations are offering large sums for rare minerals, some only found in the Congo. Poverty, land siezures and famine drives people into the forest to hunt these gentle wise beings..

The radioactive dust from fragmented depleted uranium shells blowing around the dust of Iraq's deserts may not be of concern to the bonobos now, but our continued onslaught against other peoples and Madre Tierra are driving many living beings into a frantic scramble for survival. Nuclear holocaust is the final outcome of a species of humans who couldn't evolve in a nonviolent way. Bonobos can help people if we only give them a chance..

Primate research centers in schools like UC Davis, Oregon, SF, etc. devote great sums of money to trapping primates like maqacues in cages strapped with electrodes on their testicles for psychology experiments. Not to mention the chemical exposures courtesy of the pharmaceutical corporations. If science wants to better understand the psychology of primates, why not instead sponsor bonobo habitat protection in their wild home in the Congo? If they want to indulge in their voyuerism, at least do it on the bonobo's turf instead of trapping other primates in cages..

Really we don't need to spy on bonobos, only realize our own potentials to live as loving caring human primates, re-evolve towards nonviolence before nuclear holocaust makes any further evolution of humans impossible..

Happy Winter Solstice!!



below from the Block Bonobo Foundation website;

"The Bonobo Way

Peace Through Pleasure


by Susan Block, Ph.D.

Deep in the soul of the hot, wet swamps of the Congo, there is a tribe. It is here, in their wild, erotic Garden of Eden, in the middle of war-torn territory, that our closest cousins, the bonobos, live and share a powerful kind of pleasure, and make an extraordinary kind of love.

Just in case you don’t know a bonobo from a bonsai tree, bonobos, classified as Pan paniscus, are also called pygmy chimpanzees in primatology circles. We call them the horniest apes on Earth. Some scientists say they’re closer to humans than common chimps, though that’s debatable. They certainly look more like us, with their longer legs, smaller ears and more open faces with higher foreheads. Sexually speaking, the genitals of bonobo females are rotated forward like those of human females, so that they can have face-to-face sex rather than just "doggie style," with the male mounting from behind, like most other primates. Basically, bonobos can do "it" in almost as many positions as we can, and they do do it--a lot.

Bonobos have some kind of sex almost every day, usually several times a day.

Females are in heat for three-quarters of their cycle, and many of them copulate even when not in heat, a sexual pattern more like human females than that of any other mammal. Though common chimpanzees only partake in basic reproductive sex, bonobos share all kinds of sexual pleasures, including cunnilingus, fellatio, masturbation, massage, bisexuality, incest, body-licking, sex in different positions, group sex, and lots of long, deep, wet, soulful, French kissing.

Like tantric sex practitioners, or just like two people very much in love, copulating bonobos often look deeply into each other’s eyes.

Such loving passion, such sexual dexterity, such clever, horny playfulness is found nowhere else on Earth except among certain humans.

But that’s not all that makes our kissin’ cousins, the bonobos, so worthy of our attention—worthy enough to be our official mascots here at the Dr. Susan Block Institute (we even call our staff the "Bonobo Gang"). It’s not just how they have sex, but how they use sex-- to maintain friendly relationships, to ease stress (e.g., Don’t be nervous, come here and sit on my face), as a form of commercial exchange (e.g., I’ll give you a blowjob if you give me a banana), and to reduce violent conflict. That is, they seem to use sex to make peace. And that, in a coconut shell, is why we love bonobos."