One really has to wonder. After all, he grew up among them (although they are referred to as the Great Apes rather than gorillas in the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, but they certainly seem to be some kind of gorillas). Tarzan would have been surrounded by these apes during his entire childhood and adolescence, he thought of them as family, and wild apes are known to be quite uninhibited about having sex in the presence of other wild apes, so he must have witnessed a good deal of it while he was growing up.

Is it reasonable to assume that after the onset of puberty he would have partaken of the same earthly delights that he saw other adolescent apes engaging in? I think so.

Still, Burroughs makes no reference to any such goings-on in his tales of Tarzan. Nor, come to think of it, does he refer to such goings-on amongst human beings either in those tales....aside from some passionate kissing and a bit of bodice-ripping and groping here and there when evil characters menace the heroine in this or that story...

So, what's the deal here? I'm betting that Tarzan did the horizontal bop with numerous willing ape partners in his youth, perhaps in later years too, and that Burroughs engaged in a coverup of those activities in order to avoid breaking the censorship laws of the time and get his books published.

I have to ask Chongo what he thinks about it.