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

From:Jake X <starvingpoet@...>
Date:Monday, May 19, 2003, 23:48
[an'dr\e@s r\oUt}:
> 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.
I've never heard this explanation before. I'm interested to know how many of the gay men on this list have older brothers? I have none, though my mother had two abortions before I was born, which may have been male, but I don't think they'd have been old enough to have a recognizable gender identity? So does that count? Jake

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