Hm. Intriguing. It could just be that the more sons a woman has, the more there is a chance of one of them being gay... since there's more of them. It is interesting, however, that there is a difference between being gay amongst biological and non-biological brothers.
I do feel like there's further research to be done about this, though. I mean, the psychological effects of being genetically related to your parents versus being adopted haven't been fully explored in that article. Plus, do they know how many older biological brothers that their guinea-pig-adopted-boys have? What if they all have like, seven? Would kind of disprove the point, no?
Don't get my wrong, I am not one of those people who think gayness is caused by the environment AT ALL. Am just playing the devil's advocate. Really though, I am not gay and am not a scientist who has done much research on the issue, so I am no expert anyway. *shrugs*
What are your thoughts? I've always been told by friends that it was more of a genetic thing, with perhaps (though perhaps not) some element of nurture in some cases.
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Date: 2006-06-27 03:36 am (UTC)I do feel like there's further research to be done about this, though. I mean, the psychological effects of being genetically related to your parents versus being adopted haven't been fully explored in that article. Plus, do they know how many older biological brothers that their guinea-pig-adopted-boys have? What if they all have like, seven? Would kind of disprove the point, no?
Don't get my wrong, I am not one of those people who think gayness is caused by the environment AT ALL. Am just playing the devil's advocate. Really though, I am not gay and am not a scientist who has done much research on the issue, so I am no expert anyway. *shrugs*
What are your thoughts? I've always been told by friends that it was more of a genetic thing, with perhaps (though perhaps not) some element of nurture in some cases.