Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The World's Oldest Profession

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1700821,00.html?cnn=yes

It turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females — and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went up.

Take that Christian Right!

2 comments:

J*E*F^2 said...

Thats not hooking, thats called dating. I'm guessing "paid" means the monkey equivalent of dinner and a movie.

Hey Jealousy said...

being a monkey is the oldest profession in the world? Once again I didn't read all of scott's post.