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Homosexuality linked to number of older biological brothers

PostPosted: Jun 26, 2006 @ 11:31pm
by James S
Each older brother you have makes you 30% more likely to be gay.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9 ... -womb.html

PostPosted: Jun 27, 2006 @ 12:19am
by Kzinti
If that is true, then it definitely means that being gay isn't a choice.

BTW, posting links to gay related material makes you gay 100% of the time.

PostPosted: Jun 27, 2006 @ 2:48am
by benkenobi0
So... if I have 5 boys, the 5th will be 120% gay?

PostPosted: Jun 27, 2006 @ 3:03am
by Maf54
If you birth them, yep.

PostPosted: Jun 27, 2006 @ 3:48am
by James S
No, it will never reach one-hundred percent, it's like a bouncing ball never stops bouncing mathematically.

First child is, what, 10% chance. Next one is 30% MORE, so 13% chance. Then after that it's 16% chance, then 19%. But the highest percentage it will ever go is 99.9_%, because it's a percent of a percent.

So what's better, being gay because of genetic mutation, or being gay by choice?

PostPosted: Jun 27, 2006 @ 4:20am
by Maf54
Considering a large part of our personality (emotions and such) and the way we look comes form genetic mutation I can't say it would be much different.

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 3:07pm
by sandmann

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 3:35pm
by Chris Edwards

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 3:54pm
by Jaybot

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 4:00pm
by Chris Edwards

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 4:25pm
by Kzinti

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 4:37pm
by James S

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 5:20pm
by Kzinti

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 6:00pm
by Maf54

PostPosted: Jun 28, 2006 @ 6:06pm
by Chris Edwards