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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
Keywords: mutation
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.131732.5981@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 30 Jul 90 13:17:32 GMT
References: <1990Jul23.022511.28161@mtcchi.uucp> <1990Jul27.133700.19908@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> <1990Jul27.180834.6875@cid.aes.doe.CA> <11095@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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In article <11095@netcom.UUCP> jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>In article <1990Jul27.180834.6875@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA 
>(Patrick Hertel) writes:
>>In article <1990Jul27.133700.19908@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> 
>rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>>>Has any one either conclusively shown or disconfirmed a link between
>>>heredity and sexual desire for members of the opposite sex, in humans?
>>
>> Seeing as how there would be no heredity to speak of WITHOUT the aforementioned
>>desire, I would think this rather, ahem, conclusive.
>
>You're confusing two different desires, that to have children and that to
>have sex with someone of the other sex.  Many gay men and lesbians have
>children, and many straight couples do not.  
>-- 
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>Jack Hamilton                                         
>jfh@netcom.uucp

 So if no-one had sexual desires for the opposite sex..... I think my point
still stands.  
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Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
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