From: Jim Barnebee (mutabletao@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 13 1998 - 09:17:11 MDT
Sorry if this isn't timely.
There is no such thing as a "gay gene". Homosexuality is not
genetic, but environmental. The Study previously refereed to in this
thread was done of women who were at Dresden during the bombing, and
were pregnant. Their male offspring were homosexual at at rate of 80% in
stead of the societal average of 10%. Homosexuality is caused by the
underproduction or overproduction of a certain hormone in the mother
during the gestation of the fetus (I believe in the third trimester). It
has been documented that regulating this hormone in rats can create
butch or effeminate homosexual rats, as well as straight ones. It should
be noted that this applies to male rats only, there was no correlation
found for female rats. All of this information can be obtained in the
Discovery Channel's special called "Brain Sex". I belive these studies
are referenced and explained in the third hour of the documentary.
Hope this helps,
Jim Barnebee
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