Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> >PS There are Darwinistic explanations of homosexuality. The latest I
> heard
> >invokes the "big brother effect", namely that gay men tend to have
> more
> >elder
> >borthers than other men, and asserts that homosexuality is a
> side-effect of
> >actions by the foetus to defend itself from the mother's immune
> system,
> >which
> >is assumed to be on its guard against male signatures since the
> earlier
> >male
> >foetuses.
>
> While I do personally believe that homosexuality is at the very least
> instanted by the time of birth (e.g. I never "chose"* to be gay - it's
> how
> I've always been), I believe this big-brother-effect hypotheis is the
> result
> of grasping for an answer. Yes, I, myself, do had an older brother - who
> was
> also gay. I know many gay men who are either only-childs or first-borns,
> or
> who have older sisters.
Well, I cannot guarantee the correctness of the statistics. I don't however see
any particular reason to disbelieve them. I might be able to find the New
Scientist article where I read about this if you're intrested.

> **Ever notice how it always takes more than one straight man to beat up
> a
> solitary gay man?
Probably the result of a simple risk-benefit analysis.


                                                  Andreas