“. . . since gay men have about one-fifth as many children as straight men, any gene favoring homosexuality should quickly disappear from the population.”

So, its highly unlikely that the explanation is based soley, or even principally, on genetics.

A somewhat more straightforward clue to the origin of homosexuality is the fraternal birth order effect. Two Canadian researchers, Ray Blanchard and Anthony F. Bogaert, have shown that having older brothers substantially increases the chances that a man will be gay.

Ah ha!! So growing up in a family with older male siblings, where you are in close proximity to other males growing up, where there are feelings of familial bonds, brotherly love, protective dispositions, etc., combined with the chance that parents might favor an older son over the younger, encourgaging the younger to rebel against everything his older brother represents, including his brother’s reputation as a female-magnet and stud – shows a high level of correlation to the younger brother becoming “gay”!

Well, it makes sense to me (no I am not a PHD, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express . . . )

The finding suggests that male homosexuality in these cases is caused by some event in the womb, such as “a maternal immune response to succeeding male pregnancies,”

Ooops, we absolutely HAVE to find a biological force behind gayness, so we will postulate anti-male antibodies!

“. . . though no such antibodies have yet been detected.

Shucks! There aren’t any such thing. What shall we do? Oh, I know, I know – let them know we WILL find the elusive little critters, we just need a little more funding!

; )

Fatal on April 11, 2007 at 12:52 PM