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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.motss,net.sci
Subject: Re: Data: Homosexuality may not be learned (or inherited, or...)
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 15:41:29 EDT
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In article <338@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes:
>I don't get it.  How can homosexuality be neither learned nor inherited?
>As far as I know, there is nothing else.  It may not be CONSCIOUSLY learned,
>but then most learning isn't necessarily conscious.  I'm curious to know
>just what was meant by this...

There is some evidence that placing pregnant women under stress leads to  a
higher  incidence  of  homosexuality  in  their  offspring.  It  seems that
there's a higher incidence of homosexuality among people who were  born  in
Germany  during WWII when their mothers were exposed to the stress of being
on the wrong end of bombing raids.

_If_ the above is true, it suggests a  chemical/hormonal  mechanism  rather
than a learned response or genetic cause.
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