Reviews for Why Straight People Are Straight: Is Sexual Orientation an Outcome of Species Recognition and Species-Specific Interhuman Bonding?

The average rating for Why Straight People Are Straight: Is Sexual Orientation an Outcome of Species Recognition and Species-Specific Interhuman Bonding? based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-11 00:00:00 David White I mainly went with three stars because I prefer straight nonfiction to the so-called nonfiction novel, which this is. (Creepy stories are creepier when we preserve the gaps of non-information that come with piecing a story together later, rather than filling them in with imagined details and dialogue.) That said, this account did well to humanize the unfortunate and/or nefarious Carl Tanzler Von Cosel and give insight into his disquieting mental state and how he normalized his own actions. The book also gives a thorough rendering of the Key West environment and community atmosphere, which certainly played a role in both how this caper was possible to begin with, and how it was publicly received when discovered. The story is an icky precursor to the AI relationships that are going to become more and more common as the tech world provides for them. It is the same basic concept: a fantasy that takes the place of reality in a lonely person's brain. Eventually, I suspect much of the stigma will fade away from the latter'but hopefully not the former. Because, again...icky.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-10-17 00:00:00 Russell Bullard This is a story that will stick with me forever. So completely unbelievable. I wanted so badly to not like Von Cosel and yet I found myself feeling sorry for him.