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Thread #67605   Message #1131289
Posted By: Cruiser
07-Mar-04 - 08:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: About Same-Sex Marriage
Subject: RE: BS: About Same-Sex Marriage
Guest: No aspirations to be James Dean, though to this day my hair is combed straight back like his.

Mrrzy: I also think it is prenatal, but both genetic and hormonal, especially concerning the over/under abundance of testosterone. The determination of sexual orientation is multifactorial.

Geneticist Matt Ridley {Quote}

"Nobody in science now believes that sexual orientation is caused by events in adolescence...Homosexuality is an early, probably prenatal and irreversible preference." {End Quote}

However, Dean Hamer could not conclusively find a "gay gene" (yet, in my opinion).

Dean Hamer & Peter Copeland "The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene & the Biology of Behavior", Simon & Schuster (1994)

Cruiser