Animal variants in sexual behaviour

摘要

Andrew Barron and Mark Brown suggest that journalists, by merging animal and human behaviour, promote the myth that minority sexual preferences are an 'illness' (Nature 488,151 -152; 2012). They include one of my articles among their examples - 'Bat bugs turn transsexual to avoid stabbing penises' (see go.nature.com/9iwdpb) -presumably because it uses 'transsexual' to describe insect behaviour.