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To: Junior; js1138; rootkidslim; Thatcherite

On that same note, if there IS a genetic component to homosexuality, the expression of it could be highly variable depending on the social environment that the individual was a part of. Present day expression, with the desire of gays to have pair bonding, is relatively new historically speaking. Trying to figure out in what way this genetic component (if it exists) was expressed in early Man is probably not possible.


235 posted on 12/05/2005 12:27:11 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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Present day expression, with the desire of gays to have pair bonding, is relatively new historically speaking.

IIRC, the Persians of Alexander's time maintained a regiment composed solely of homosexual men and their lovers, the idea being that no man would want to appear cowardly in the presence of his significant other.

240 posted on 12/05/2005 12:33:27 PM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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