Jesus is the only man for me, too. The gardener, I mean. Not that Jewish guy.

Taint -- I see you get the same email newsletter that I do.  It's comedy gold.

In fact, just last year in March, the director of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis Collins, said this: homosexuality is not hardwired. There is no gay gene. We mapped the human genome. We now know there is no genetic cause for homosexuality.

Ah hells-bells - Taint & Pale you're fucked.


and not in the good way.

Emmeran wrote:

Ah hells-bells - Taint & Pale you're fucked.

They'd be at an equal loss to tell you on which gene "heterosexuality" resided. It is presently accepted that sexual behavioral expression exists in a constellation of genes that is more or less inscrutable and nearly the same for everybody. So, unless you'd prefer to believe that any functionally straight person has the capacity to become gay depending on environment and other factors of rearing, then you ought not to accept so blindly that supposedly straight people are turned gay by the same effects. There are other morphological differences (such as the recently reported brain size in straight men/lesbians vs. straight women/gays) that point to genetic links we're simply not smart enough to understand, as yet. Which is to say, a decision for either camp would be premature, no matter what Mr. Collins has to say.

Emmeran wrote:

pALEPHx wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Ah hells-bells - Taint & Pale you're fucked.

They'd be at an equal loss to tell you on which gene "heterosexuality" resided. It is presently accepted that sexual behavioral expression exists in a constellation of genes that is more or less inscrutable and nearly the same for everybody. So, unless you'd prefer to believe that any functionally straight person has the capacity to become gay depending on environment and other factors of rearing, then you ought not to accept so blindly that supposedly straight people are turned gay by the same effects. There are other morphological differences (such as the recently reported brain size in straight men/lesbians vs. straight women/gays) that point to genetic links we're simply not smart enough to understand, as yet. Which is to say, a decision for either camp would be premature, no matter what Mr. Collins has to say.

All I can say is that I've never looked at a hairy ass and thought "yumm"

Sooo...
Armenian gals are out of the question for you, then?

Emmeran wrote:

All I can say is that I've never looked at a hairy ass and thought "yumm"

I forget whose comedy routine that stems from, but it's thankfully not what human sexuality is all about. Whether a genetic basis is ever found or not, it doesn't change what exists...and that's still roughly one in ten men who are gay, a slightly higher proportion of lesbians, and innumerable bisexuals who spend part of their lives in one orientation or another (plus a few who seem able to juggle both at once).

Let's just presume, for a moment, that no genetic basis exists for human sexuality (doesn't make much sense when you generalize it to 'all sexuality,' now does it, but you can't have your cake and eat it too, here). Then we must all begin life as bisexual templates waiting to be molded into whatever society demands. There is very little to human behavior that operates along these lines. People don't all have the jobs that go with skills they're born having. Children's temperaments are not automatically easy-going and sociable. Gay men are not all uniformly attracted to hirsute posteriors (most operate to the contrary, in my observation). Considering the amount of variety bestowed to either gender, I would be amazed if genetic predispositions weren't found for nearly all forms of sexual interest out there. Can you imagine if there was a shoe fetish gene? (it would still be more likely that there was some sort of gene that disposed one to inanimate objects, and gets reinforced or suppressed through experiences in life, and so on)

fnord wrote:

What a petty little god they worship.

Truer words never spoke.  Can you imagine what their Heaven might be like?

Of course, all our gods are created in our own images.