For Matthew: references for sexuality

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) For Matthew: references for sexuality
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:21:14 -0700
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Hey Matthew, there are a TON of different places that comment on this.  The=20
easiest way to get a good (understandable no matter what your background in=20
hormones and genetics) sample is to go to http://www.google.com and type in=20
"Finger length and sexuality" as a search.  You will find a ton of stuff. I=
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is, of course, controversial, then look up "Womb memory and sexuality".  Th=
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are the original scholarly journals which are a bit too complicated for mos=
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people, but they are summarized nicely in the news articles on them.  Check=
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out!  In my undergraduate education, we made "fruity" fruit flies - a splic=
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gene can make male fruit flies mount other male fruit flies.  Of course, as=
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Catholic, I believe in free will no matter what proclivity we may have, but=
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do accept that we cannot choose many innate things, and that who we are=20
attracted to is not something we can really choose, and is therefore not an=20
act of exercising free will. You should be able to find the basic research =
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the net if you want to.
Marc Aramini

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