I heard a theory that gay behavior is actually caused by intestinal parasites and it seems plausible enough to warrant scientific investigation. Liver flukes, cordyceps, and toxoplasma gondii are already known to cause complex behavior changes in the host to perpetuate the life cycle of the parasite - so something that causes humans to be obsessed with feces to consume and spread parasite eggs is not an unreasonable hypothesis.
Are you saying that these physical effects replace the behavioral/developmental explanations? it seems like if it's a disease then people could be made gay. But for the most part straight people don't turn gay.
Yeah it's always been pretty puzzling to me. It seems to have a genetic component, but it's not easily identifiable like having green eyes or something. Then it's clearly correlated with certain kinds of child rearing and, even, they say, hormone exposure in the womb. I don't think "born this way" is entirely accurate, therefore.
I heard a theory that gay behavior is actually caused by intestinal parasites and it seems plausible enough to warrant scientific investigation. Liver flukes, cordyceps, and toxoplasma gondii are already known to cause complex behavior changes in the host to perpetuate the life cycle of the parasite - so something that causes humans to be obsessed with feces to consume and spread parasite eggs is not an unreasonable hypothesis.
So Futurama was right again.
Have you consumed the Worm Pill?
Are you saying that these physical effects replace the behavioral/developmental explanations? it seems like if it's a disease then people could be made gay. But for the most part straight people don't turn gay.
Perhaps, like transgenderism, gay behavior is not a single phenomenon but rather a set of symptoms.
Yeah it's always been pretty puzzling to me. It seems to have a genetic component, but it's not easily identifiable like having green eyes or something. Then it's clearly correlated with certain kinds of child rearing and, even, they say, hormone exposure in the womb. I don't think "born this way" is entirely accurate, therefore.