Life Brittish neuroscientist says that being gay is genetic - Page 4

**pr_capone** · 06-24-2011, 03:36 PM

possibly for DC but hopefully we can have a nice conversation without it turning to flame fest.

http://www.canada.com/life/Baby+were...565/story.html

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When it comes to sexual orientation — and homosexuality in particular — it turns out that Freud and others who theorized that it stems from early parental relationships, childhood abuse or choice were traipsing up the wrong path.

According to pioneering British-American neuroscientist, Simon LeVay (and Lady Gaga), the answer is simple: Baby, you were born this way.

"Sexual orientation is an aspect of gender that emerges from the prenatal sexual differentiation of the brain," says LeVay, who was one of the first researchers in 1991 to connect brain development to sexual orientation. "Whether a person is gay or straight depends in large part on how this process of biological differentiation goes forward, with the lead actors being genes, sex hormones and the brain systems that are influenced by them."

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**Donger** · 06-24-2011, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pants

It's a harmless mutation, I guess.

I don't disagree.

vailpass · 06-24-2011, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

You've never grabbed cock? Doubt that.

Is that how you people feel each other out? Doesn't seem very subtle but then neither is balls across the face.

Brock · 06-24-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

Is that how you people feel each other out? Doesn't seem very subtle but then neither is balls across the face.

I don't know who "you people" are, but I don't believe that you have never grabbed a cock.

JD10367 · 06-24-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

Good. Maybe they can find a way to cure them of the defect.

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

Pants · 06-24-2011, 04:52 PM

**Donger** · 06-24-2011, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JD10367

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

That was a joke.

And, it's Adolf, not Adolph.

JD10367 · 06-24-2011, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Donger

That was a joke.

And, it's Adolf, not Adolph.

Adolph is the Brittish spelling.

vailpass · 06-24-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

I don't know who "you people" are, but I don't believe that you have never grabbed a cock.

What I'm grabbing right now is a mason jar full of really good margarita. Herradura, Grand Marnier, lime juice and rocks.

I see what you are getting at in terms of I've probably grabbed my own but I did so out of choice, not heredity.

Brock · 06-24-2011, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

I see what you are getting at in terms of I've probably grabbed my own but I did so out of choice, not heredity.

Why did you do that? Got to where you could work that thing pretty good, I bet.

JD10367 · 06-24-2011, 05:06 PM

If

makes you gay, move over, Richard Simmons, I'm the new poster child! ::: running to put rainbow stickers on his car... :::

ToxSocks · 06-24-2011, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by vailpass

Herradura, Grand Marnier, lime juice and rocks.

Thanks. Now I know what I'm doing tonight. But ****, Grand Marnier is expensive.

Brock · 06-24-2011, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JD10367

If

makes you gay, move over, Richard Simmons, I'm the new poster child! ::: running to put rainbow stickers on his car... :::

I don't think it makes you gay, just poking fun at vailpass' remark about grabbing cock.

JD10367 · 06-24-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Brock

I don't think it makes you gay, just poking fun at vailpass' remark about grabbing cock.

Oh, good. Wait, does "The Stranger" count? I guess it depends on who you're picturing doing it, LOL...

**RealSNR** · 06-24-2011, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by JD10367

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

I agree. A gay dude cut my hair last month, and this is the best I've ever looked in my life. It's like he breathed fabulous particles all over my head and turned me into a hot hunk

Mr. Laz · 06-24-2011, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Pants

Anyone being remotely honest could have concluded this on their own.

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