Posted on 01/21/2014 3:01:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
Smoking while pregnant has been shown to cause delayed growth, low birth weight, and premature delivery, but now an Amsterdam University professor is claiming that smoking and undergoing stress during pregnancy for a developing fetus can in fact impact the child’s sexual orientation, reports The Sunday Times.
According to neuroscientist Dr. Dick Swaab, pre-birth exposure to nicotine can increase the chances of girls becoming lesbian or bisexual and drinking or drug taking can lower a child’s IQ. The researcher also surmised that a boy with several older brothers has a higher chance of being gay possibly because the development of the mother’s immune system to have stronger responses to male hormones with each son born.
Not only does nicotine play a part in sexual orientation but so does stress. Dr. Swaab contends, “Pregnant women suffering from stress are also more likely to have homosexual children of both genders because their raised level of the stress hormone cortisol affects the production of fetal sex hormones,” he added.
Dr. Swaab says that the fetal brain begins to form at about the two-week mark, so any toxin that is introduced could have an effect on the unborn child.
The ingestion of synthetic hormones while pregnant can also play a role in determining sexual orientation as well, as evidenced with a group of studies done on women between 1939 and 1960 to reduce their miscarriage risk. The women who ingested the synthetic estrogen had a greater chance of bisexuality and lesbianism in their daughters.
Swaab concludes that even though lifestyle factors play a major role in fetal brain formation, genetics still holds the most weight.
One doesn’t know where to begin — pseudoscience has us screwed no matter what.
Think I’ll just go get a cat and start kissing guys...
Man, Stanley Dunham must have smoked like a chimney then.
Fags lead to fags.
Sexual abuse of very small children, infants even, leads to self-identification as a homosexual. In “nature versus nurture”, the cigarette-smoking mother also has other excesses in her life, and these excesses of poor judgment spill over into child rearing, exposing the child to highly unfavorable circumstances, including poor choice of partnering in the chore of raising the child.
Based on the limited amount of information passed on to the child, the option of turning to homosexual expressions appears to be a better choice.
But it is still a choice, although a bad one.
My lefty mother smoked like a chimney and I’m a straight as an arrow conservative.
My conservative aunt never smoke anything in her life and my cousin is a lefty,pinko, pickle chuggin, Hershey Highway drivin’, baloney pony riding, homo.
Go Figure
A good percentage of the Boomers must be gay if this is correct.
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Maybe somebody switched you guys at birth ? ;-D
Homos won’t like this because it suggests what I’ve always said. Homosexuality is a birth defect. While they love to say they can’t help it, they don’t like being called defective.
When I was pregnant with my first two children ,in the early 70’s, I smoked. My doctor had no problem with it but did have a major problem with any weight gain. Well, my daughter and my son are perfectly straight with kids. I quit when i was pregnant with my 3rd. but did smoke during my first trimester. He’s also married with kids and a straight arrow. My mother smoked like a chimney and i’ve been married for 45 years.
I still so no one is his right mind would choose to do this abnormal sexual act.
Right mind. That is the key. It is a defect.
undergoing stress during pregnancy for a developing fetus can in fact impact the child’s sexual orientation
Career mothers.
Homosexuals DO have a defective genetic make-up.
Suddenly, Obama will be for tobacco subsidies.
If that was stress, we would be absolutely overrun with homos.
Maybe if you smoke Virginia Slims.
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