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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Data: Homosexuality may not be learned
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 14:42:43 EDT
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I tend to agree with Rob.  The study which Craig quoted seems
to have the puzzling null hypothesis that homosexuality and behavior
are one and the same, or for that matter that homosexuality is
"learned" by participation in homosexual acts.  Most gay people I
know realize their sexual preference well before they have any
opportunity to express it, and we all know about early-teenage
experimentation with same-sex peers, the outcome of which seems
totally unrelated to an individual's eventual sexual preference.

Not that I think nature/nurture arguments are irrelevant, but it
certainly seems that this study is asking the wrong questions.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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