Give me a link to scientists discrediting this research, not anonymous people of dubious intelligence on a message board.
Posted on 06/06/2005 10:50:27 PM PDT by scripter
There have been a few studies that seem to indicate that since lesbians as a group are less likely to have children, they are more likely to contract breast cancer than the general population of Heteros that do give birth. This may also account for the rise in breast cancer among all women since many put off pregnancy till they're in their mid-late 30's.
Whoops. When I saw the "1994" you posted I read it as 2004.
The link I posted is brand new and explored a completely different tact.
buh bye
The study of identical twins makes a great case against a genetic basis for homosexuality. The last study I read on the subject showed that in only about 13% of cases when one twins is homosexual is the other twin found to be involved in the lifestyle.
Another option for those who feel their orientation runs too deep to change is simply to be sexually inactive. Our culture bombards us with the message that celibacy is freakish and nearly impossible, but that's not true. I have a homosexual uncle who took that route, and he's exceptionally healthy at age 85.
Give me a link to scientists discrediting this research, not anonymous people of dubious intelligence on a message board.
New is better eh? Let me hold your hand here, if science is valid, now say it with me, it's R-E-P-L-I-C-A-B-L-E.
If your "new" research is valid it would replicate the dozen or so fruit fly studies that came before it.
See how science works girlfriend?
I prefer to look at all the evidence on the subject and not a single study.
Thanks - That is indeed another option.
I stand corrected the studies linked here seem to put it at closer to 38%. But the fact still remains that 38% is not 100% as would be expected in genetically identical twins.
I've read the same thing. For various reasons, I don't really follow the subject of lesbianism as much as male homosexuality.
You beat me to it. Hey - it's always best to correct things yourself anyway. :-)
Because I think there might be an inborn component among some homosexuals, I'm inclined to think they lived shorter lives, not only because of their lifestyles, but because of their inherently weaker immune system. If their brains are slightly defective, it would make sense that so would be their immune system.
A gay writer had suggested this once at an AIDS symposium -- that gays have naturally inferior immune systems -- and he was booed off the stage.
Interestingly, if insurance companies could do this with great precision, society would be just as well of with no insurance companies.
The value of insurance is that it allows people to pool their risk factors. If you also had to pay for each risk factor the value of insurance would be decreased to maybe the same as just taking the risk that you won't get sick.
You see the words fruit fly and seem to infer that all studies are repeats of previous ones.
LOL
Please take some courses on DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
"All animals exhibit innate behaviors that are specified during their development.
Drosophila melanogaster males (but not females) perform an elaborate and innate courtship ritual directed toward females (but not males).
Male courtship requires products of the fruitless (fru) gene, which is spliced differently in males and females. We have generated alleles of fru that are constitutively spliced in either the male or the female mode.
We show that male splicing is essential for male courtship behavior and sexual orientation. More importantly, male splicing is also sufficient to generate male behavior in otherwise normal females.
These females direct their courtship toward other females (or males engineered to produce female pheromones).
The splicing of a single neuronal gene thus specifies essentially all aspects of a complex innate behavior"
Evidence and errata aren't the same thing.
I think it's getting closer to that point. Insurance companies are getting more and more strict and finding new wasy to raise premiums to keep their profits up.
I worked on a unit with about 50% Lesbian staff. In the five years I was there everyone of them had a cancer of some type although none died from it. They were all in their 30-40's. Also, lots of genital Herpes in this population.
I would disagree with the gay writer myself... There just isn't any evidence to support that theory. When you look at the bigger picture (i.e. all the evidence) we see that sexuality is fluid, that people can enter the homosexual life or leave it. Depending on many factors, homosexuals could live a shorter life.
Nobody said it was. What I said was that I prefer to look at all the evidence and not a single study to form an opinion.
Are you basing your opinion here on that one study?
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