[managusta]

Nature vs nurture again.

[A. Pole]

So does it mean that it is not genetic?

[DTogo]

What other maladies can we blame on "starting in the womb?"

Being a pedophile?

Being a rapist?

Being a serial killer?

[Joe 6-pack]

I would've suspected it to have begun in the colon....

[phoenix0468]

So does that mean the ninth boy is THREE TIMES A LADY!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, right. Drawing to an inside straight begins in the womb, too. Thanks a lot, Mom.

[Anti-Bubba182]

What horse manure!

They might as well have said, "For each additional older brother, a boy's chance of being unreasonably afraid of backing into doorknobs increases by a third....."

[Constantine XIII]

So THAT'S where all those gay Mormons came from.

Oh, wait, never mind.

[kcvl]

BS!

Anthony Bogaert is an associate professor at Brock University in Ontario.

[Seruzawa]

Oh crap. These people are the High Priests of Perversion. I'll guarantee that this "study" will be found to be bogus, just like all the rest of these psychobabblemumbojumbo BS "studies" where evidence is cherry picked to "prove" the preconceived hypoyjesis.

[TWohlford]

Too bad that, after 25+ years of looking, there's absolutely no proof of any genetic link to being gay / straight / pedophile / lesbian / transgender / girl watcher / prefer women with big'uns, etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

Pegs my BS meter...

[metmom]

ping

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

And here come an amazing number of stupid comments...not one of which address the study. Conservatives just never never argue on the scientific issues...just blurt out stupid stuff. I would have a lot more respect to a discussion if it was rational.

Ok, now you can go ahead and flame away...oh, and I await the really "mature" ones to comment on my Freeper name.

[Gumdrop]

Nonsense. My sister has 7 sons, and not a one of them has any effeminate mannerisms and all are married.

[guitarist]

You know what's really sick, stupid, disgusting, unbelievable, galling, etc.? The way these "studies" are used to "prove" something that is complete myth. Like that boys are "gay" from the womb. I will take the author's word for it that a boy who is the fourth son is more likely to be a homosexual than one who has no brothers. But does it follow from that that perversion is hereditary?? Why don't they follow the trail everyone knows about but it afraid to mention, because it decimates the idea of being "born gay"--namely, that virtually all homosexuals are the sons of an absent or overbearing father!

[L.N. Smithee]

I have never had a problem with the idea that homosexuality may have a biological component to it. What gets me is the way that it is treated as if it is normal and not obviously what would normally be termed a disorder or a birth defect. For believers in natural selection, I have yet to hear any credible reason why homosexuality should not be viewed as an anomaly, since it obviously doesn't lead to continuation and propagation of the species.

Whenever someone suggests that it's not an innocuous difference -- like being red-headed -- and more like being born with a chronic illness that takes great effort to overcome, the radical howl as if there is something hateful about it.

[VeniVidiVici]

This is a lie.

According to the liberals themselves, nothing starts in the womb besides a mass of unthinking, unfeeling, ungentically coded tissue that could be nothing more than an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard or a crumb of cheese.

[hosepipe]

[ Being gay 'starts in the womb' ]

Wrong.. being gay starts in the HEAD...

[jongaltsr]

It happens because his mama beats up his ol man and mama continues protecting her "precious" little boy from the big bad ol world.

Now all he can do is cry "homofobe" when the boys pick on him.

[LowOiL]

BS stuff again, any body worth 10 cents would understand that being the last child means that they are more likely to be a momma's boy and that the father is more likely to be dead during child's needful years of a male role model.

It is that simple...