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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: Homosexuality caused by the Pill?
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Could sexual orientation be genetically pushed by excessive male or female hormones during pregnancy?
Posted:3/6/2006
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Rod , Jacksonville, FL, United States , 50 , Male , White/Caucasian , Straight , Attorney , Over 4 Years of College , Upper class
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: Being gay not caused by the pill
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it could be hormonal, but we've had homosexual people around since history began to be written down and kept track of. There are also gay animal groups that don't eat anything in orer to alter their hormones.

it could be a in-utero hormonal issue, but not one caused by the pill (or only by the pill)

Posted:5/14/2008
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Dina Marie Spurr, Chicago, IL, United States , 19 , Female , Anti-organized religion, believes in Jesus , White/Caucasian , Bisexual , full-time student , 2 Years of College , Middle class
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: Excessive hormones=gay?
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I was wondering the same thing!

Posted:4/23/2008
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Karah T, Jacksonville, FL, United States , 35 , Female , Straight
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: Homosexuality caused by the Pill?
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Possibly. A person's sexual orientation is normally determined at or before birth. Hormonal conditions in the mother may determine this.

The theory for gay men is that male fetuses who develop in the presence of higher-than-average levels of male hormones like androgen are more likely to be gay. They are, in a sense "hyper-masculine"--which may explain the results of studies demonstrating that gay men tend to have larger penises than straight men.



Posted:1/10/2008
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Gordon R, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: I doubt it
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If that were the case, then the population of gays should have skyrocketed after the pill was introduced given the number of women who used the pill. Also, it wouldn't explain why there were gays before the pill was introduced or explain why there are gays like me who are children of good Catholic parents who didn't use birth control pills. ;-)

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Posted:12/11/2007
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Shelly Strauss Rollison, New Alexandria, PA, United States , 49 , Female , New Age/Metaphysical , White/Caucasian , Bisexual , Minister, writer, activist, CNA, draftsman , 4 Years of College , Lower middle class
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: maybe
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some believe hormones cause sexual orientation. but there is no substancial proff.this theory has been proven with fruit flies and rats. I don't see how we can ethically experiment this with humans
Posted:12/9/2006
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Dina Marie , Chicago, IL, United States , Female , undecided, anti-organized religion , White/Caucasian , Bisexual , Student, writer,
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: Ummm...
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No. Not sure what else to say... What, did your preacher use that line to justify his neanderthal stance on birth control or something?
Posted:3/16/2006
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Ann , Kansas City, MO, United States , 38 , Female , Animist , White/Caucasian , Straight , Executive Assistant , 4 Years of College , Middle class
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Category: Sexual Orientation
Subject: maybe...
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I read about a study that said hormones produced during pregnancy could cause homosexuality if there is too much or too little. the study was on humans but the experimenting was on rats. The pregnant rats were put in bad conditions to depress them, thus altering the hormoan production. The babies that were born came in 3 sexual orientations-
1- Straight
2- Bisexual (males were tops or studs with females but bottoms or duds with other males)
3- Asexual (no attraction to either gender period)
the study also concluded that more gay people are born after war time ( which is the happiest time in the world,ain't it?). This supposts that the stress on the mother, which does effect production and function of the body and its parts (including hormones), could also effect the hormones the fetus has thus determining sexual orientation.
this is still just an unproven study.
Posted:3/12/2006
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Dina Marie , Chicago, IL, United States , Female , In Religious Transition , White/Caucasian , Bisexual , Poet, Student, otherwise Unemployed , Middle class
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