the hammer of homosexuality

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Agreed. I find the pheromone experiments fairly clear-cut. 


Straight women and gay men are aroused by the pheromones of men.

Straight men and gay women are aroused by the pheromones of women.

Bisexuals of both sexes react to both. (And some lesbians showed mixed reactions, as well.)

I don't think there's a gene  for homosexuality, per se,  but I have little doubt we'll find hox-gene pathways in which certain timing and/or duration of gene-switching that occurs during the two major "puberties" we undergo (one isn't really puberty; it happens in the womb late in gestation, but is a lot like puberty in that whole new sets of genes get "switched on" by controller-genes, and it has a huge effect on outcome, depending on when each of the sequence is activated, and for how long) impacts the "Kinsey-scale-settings" of the adult. It's just too complex to fully map, at present, since so many variables are involved.

Oh, thanks Rocket!  Yes, I had read about the pheremone study with great interest, but it's wonderful to get a scientist's (should I use biologist or geneticist?) take on the matter.

I never got to work as a geneticist, except in my first year of grad school (before I dropped out of grad school!) when I worked on analysis of a series of viruses, primarily Hantavirus, when I worked with the team that trapped rice rats and brought them back to isolate and study BAYV, a variant of Hantavirus.

Turned out, I liked the fieldwork more than the labwork, and wound up becoming a field biologist.

So I suppose biologist would be a propos.