Gorilla
by Bruno Mars?
I’m not sure why but I took offense at the lyrics
for Gorilla by Bruno Mars from the
first time I heard it on the radio. Maybe Bruno himself looks wrong for the
part in my mind’s eye and I am not planning on watching the video so that won’t
change, I can’t see the thirty feet tall part. It was probably that I understood
some of the lyrics because I usually don’t, yet I already knew that sex takes
Bruno to paradise, so why not gorilla sex too? I did like his song Treasure so I looked up those lyrics and I've decided maybe I have been listening to the I Heart Radio sanitized version
because I don’t remember it beginning with-Baby
squirrel, you’s a sexy m***f***. After that line the rest of the song doesn't seem so offensive and it has a throwback kind of vibe that appeals to
me. The thing about gorillas’ (the primate variety found in the wild) sexual
preferences is that gorilla social groups usually contain just one sexually
active male and several females. This is not mentioned in the song of course,
but could be implied. Evolutionarily speaking, humans are closer (by a few
million years) to chimps and chimps, researchers have found, are more into experimental
sex. Within their groups several sexually active males breed with the group’s
active females and vice versa. The chimps’ semen also coagulates into a plug in
the female’s genital tract in order to increase the chances that a male will
fertilize the female’s eggs. These same researchers then studied semen of
humans, chimps, and gorillas for ACPP, an anticoagulating enzyme and found (to
make a long story shorter) that gorillas regulate ACPP in the same way humans
do, so maybe our lineage, in this regard at least, has reverted to a more
gorilla like condition. Maybe Bruno is on to something.
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