avva | сексуальные символы

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egmg, по поводу этой картинки, отрывок из книги Desmond'a Morris'a The Naked Ape. Безволосая обезьяна - это про человека, значит, глазами зоолога. Была бестселлером в конце 60-х. Какой у неё научный статус сейчас, я не знаю.

[сначала он обсуждает мимикрию у некоторых видов обезьян:]
... Recent German research has revealed that certain species have started to mimic themselves. The most dramatic examples of this are the mandrill and the gelada baboon. The male mandrill has a bright red penis with blue scrotal patches on either side of it. This colour arrangement is repeated on its face, its nose being bright red and its swollen, naked cheeks an intense blue. It is as if the animal's face is mimicking its genital region by giving the same set of visual signals. When the male madrill approaches another animal, its genital display tends to be concealed by its body posture, but it can still apparently transmit the vital messages by using its phallic face.
The female gelada indulges in a similar self-copying device. Around her genitals there is a bright red skin patch, bordered with white papillae. The lips of the vulva in the centre of this area are a deeper, richer red. This visual pattern is repeated on her chest region, where again there is a patch of naked red skin surrounded by the same kind of white papillae. In the centre of this chest patch the deep red nipples have come to lie so close together that they are strongly reminiscent of the lips of the vulva. (They are indeed so close to one another that the infant sucks from both teats at the same time). Like the true genital patch, the chest patch varies in intensity of colour during the different stages of the monthly sexual cycle.
[дальше следует долгое объяснение того, как обезьянам помогает эта мимикрия, и того, можно ли считать положение "лицом к лицу" базовым сексуальным положением у людей - Моррис считает, что можно. Потом переходит к мимикрии у безволосых обезьян. Выделения жирным шрифтом мои:]
...If the female of our species was going to successfully shift the interest of the male round to the front, evolution would have to do something to make the frontal region more stimulating. At some point, back in our ancestry, we must have been using the rear approach. Supposing we had reached the stage where the female signalled sexually to the male from behind with a pair of fleshy, hemispherical buttocks (not, incidentally found elsewhere amoung the primates) and a pair of fleshy red genital lips, or labia. Supposing the male had evolved a powerful sexual responsiveness to these specific signals. Supposing that, at this point in evolution, the species became increasingly vertical and frontally oriented in its social contacts. Given this situation, one might very well expect to find some sort of frontal self-mimicry of the type seen in the gelada baboon. Can we, if we look at the frontal regions of the female of out species, see any structures that might possibly be mimics of the ancient genital display of hemispherical buttocks and red labia? The answer stands out as clearly as the female bosom itself. The protuberant, hemispherical breasts of the female must surely be copies of the fleshy buttocks, and the sharply defined red lips around the mouth must be copies of the red labia. (You may recall that, during intense sexual arousal, both the lips of the mouth and the genial labia become swollen and deeper in colour, so that they not only look alike, but also change in the same way in sexual excitement). If the male of the species was already primed to respond sexually to these signals when they emanated posteriorly from the genital region, then he would have a built-in susceptibility to them if they could be reproduced in that form on the front of the female's body. And this, it would seem, is precisely what has happened, with the females carrying a duplicate set of buttocks and labia on their chests and mouths respectively (The use of lipsticks and brassieres immediately springs to mind, but these must be left until later, when we are dealing with the special sexual techniques of modern civilisation).