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Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:10:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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It seems to me that being heterosexual is the default,
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That’s pretty much proven by evolution, if nothing else. Heterosexual pairings
can produce offspring, but homosexual ones can’t, therefore the heterosexual
lifestyle is self-propogating and the homosexual one isn’t.
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and then something happens (socialization, etc), and some become gay.
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Survival of the species requires diversification, and not all changes are
self-propogating. Homosexuality happens to be one of them.
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There is a great deal of resistance in the scientific community to point to
a “gay gene” as far as I’m aware, so it can’t be inborn entirely.
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Really? Can you cite any sources on that? I’ve got
one that suggests otherwise
(it doesn’t specifically involve gene-tracing, but it does show a clear
physiological difference), so I would think that if there is any resistence to
tracking down a gene or gene sequence that leads to homosexual tendancies, it
would be out of fear that such knowledge would certainly be abused.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I'd like to chime in as a biologist here: there are some situations in which sexual energy is better spent without a procreative effect. For example, if a group has limited resources. Sexual interactions among animals are not always strictly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Hmmm. Can we do that? You are implying that the two are equal and interchangable things. It seems to me that being heterosexual is the default, and then something happens (socialization, etc), and some become gay. There is a great deal of (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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