greatest dancer, sexually frustrated basket case!

"Some folks grow grass, he's rasin' his own pussy! Ain't that a bitch??!"

-Paul Mooney-"R.A.C.E.(1993)

Travis Bickle (De Niro) is an alienated, isolated, depressed and sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the Midwest, who says he was a Marine. He suffers from chronic insomnia and consequently takes a job as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City. Travis spends his spare time watching pornography in seedy porn theaters and driving around aimlessly through the shadiest neighborhoods of Manhattan.

In this scene we clearly see how his isolation has reached levels where his only communication is with himself in the mirror.

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film drama directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. It is widely considered one of the greatest, but also one of the most controversial films in the history of American cinema and is frequently praised for its strong performances and gritty realism. The film is also notable for making stars out of both its leading actors, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster; the latter was only thirteen years old when the movie was released. It was also the last film on which the legendary composer Bernard Herrmann (famed for his work with Alfred Hitchcock, especially Psycho) completed work on, and Taxi Driver is dedicated to his memory.

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Not the best translation, but I'll give it anyway (in parenthesis are the things I'm unsure if they are correctly translated)

From the heights of the Canadian mountains,Valerius (G...?) observed the hitting on the legs of a male ram similar the female cobo (I guess it refers to ram). He wrote:
"To conceive this magnificent creatures were homosexual was too much for me, but I finally decided to call it by its name and admit the the rams live in a homosexual society...But while the majority of female cogo also mate with males,a
lot of young ram or of lower status, have to wait and mature sexually before having heterosexual experiences"

The young American Bison also reveals homosexual behavior, sometimes for more than 5 years...Normally after a period of fighting, they mount one another. The adult Bisons do not let the young to mate with females; that is why their behavior is interpreted as a sexual frustration (incorrectly used). Some studies separated the adult males and even when there where plenty of females available the males continued to have homosexual relationships.

Most of these first interpretations had a thing in common; whether they served as a practice or to arouse the opposite sex, the animals with homosexual behavior have a unique intention, to improve their possibilities in the future reproductive sex.

Then in a forest of Central Africa, a group of monkeys appeared that forced the scientists to reconsider the purpose/intention of any kind of sex.
(The first pair of monkeys that keep looking at each other are male and female)
But the Primatologist Frans (D...?)states, "The Bonobos will have sexual relationships with males and females, old, and young while eating, playing or carrying their young. And have relations frequently, sometimes for the entire day"

The sexual behavior of the Bonobo is the more flexible that we know of (leaving out the human race), I tend to define them as pansexuals; I cannot say they are homosexuals because they do not have an exclusive orientation to one gender or the other. They use sex in all the individual combinations, they feel free to do so.

The females only have offspring every 6 years, but have sexual relations whether they are in heat or not, and even when they are pregnant or are breast-feeding their young. Even the young have sexual relationships face to face. The Bonobo is one of the few species that discards the common scientific assumption that animal sex is united only to reproduction.

There is a theory that pretends to give sex a social purpose by relating it with dominant behavior. (@ minute 3:00) A male of higher status establishes dominance to a much younger male. But this theory does not seem to apply completely to the Bonobos, because the young as well as members of inferior status also tend to mount the elder members; Sex in this cases appears to be reciprocal.

Why do Bonobos waste so much energy trying to have sex so frequently and with many different individuals?
"The choice of sexmates is dictated by the social ties or strategic politics. It is also due to the tension. Our data reveals that the increase in social tensions
between Bonobos ( is translated )as sexual behavior. Food creates competition, and instead of fighitng for it, they have sexual relations in order to share the food later. That is why we say they make love and not war"

@4:25
This type of monkeys tends to have sexual relations face to face, a posture that in principle was thought to be exclusive of humans.
There are dangers if we relate these monkeys with humans, but there is a point in which (the Primatologist argues)the Bonobos are stronger:

"The Bonobos show us that the sexual life of our closest relatives is extremely rich and flexible. Those who claim that the only function of sex is reproduction are mistaken with the Bonobos, and it is possible that they are mistaken about us as well because sex can have multiple functions and vary/change greatly in a big society."

"And homosexual behavior is marginalized only in certain cultures. Is like just for having homosexual interests they end up being seen as exclusively homosexual; they could be bisexual, which may occur with a lot of heterosexuals. There is a kind of division that might not have been created naturally, but by intolerance."

Within the Bonobo's societies and other primate societies, the individuals who demonstrate homosexual behaviors do not seem to be marginalized/excluded; on the contrary it is just another part of their daily life.

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