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To: little jeremiah
Incredible steaming pile of lies and assertions with absolutely no basis in fact.

This part is true. I read the study.

". . . for every older brother a man has, his chances of being gay increase by one third. Older sisters make no difference, and there's no corresponding effect for lesbians. A first-born son has about a 2 percent chance of being gay, and the numbers rise from there. . ."

36 posted on 03/13/2006 11:26:26 AM PST by ahayes
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To: ahayes
I believe it's an established fact that birth order can have observable consequences. So two or three children growing up in the same household would have a different experience.

I have two dogs who are brothers, they've been together since birth. So, they've had the same environment. One is the "alpha" dog, the other not. They're as different as night and day.

That doesn't mean the differences are genetic...we can grow up in the same household but have a totally different experience.

42 posted on 03/13/2006 11:44:59 AM PST by gogeo
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To: ahayes

Let's don't get too far away from the fact that, as yet, we only have the word of the self-declared that they are gay which is the only scientifically valid reason for doing studies such as these.

Prison sex or any group sex act has an element of coercion.


143 posted on 03/17/2006 10:33:13 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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