I am more interested in positive research that can lead to answering heretofor questions instead of marinating in a mindset that places a priority on scrutinizing a comment in hopes of finding something homophobic

That was your greatest point of all time. 😎

We’re pretty good at being the messenger to raise the provocative debate .So the only time I remember being completely taken aback, it actually wasn’t a male-female thing but I was on a transsexual radio show up in the New England area and I was talking about something that I was calling a genetic defect, which was a situation which is common in the Dominican Republic. They call it guevadoce, where you appear to be female until 12 and then as you go into puberty a big rush of testosterone, everything descends and suddenly you’re a guy. And in all the scientific literature this was called a defect. And I went on the radio show, I was running through some of what made that interesting to me and I got really dinged for calling it a defect. You know, who do you think you are to call people defective? Why don’t you call it a genetic variation?

And she finally called it a variation, although she’s not a big fan of PC.

Ah, but is it necessarily a ‘bad’ germ that would cause someone to be gay. Or is this your biases that are showing.

You’re right, and that’s why it should be up to the individual to decide.

I wash my hands ALL the time and never, ever touch a door handle either without using my blouse or something else as a buffer. It has definitely helped me from getting colds, etc.

You are doing it exactly right. It doesn’t mean we might not drop dead of brain cancer tomorrow but lowering our germ load certainly cuts out a huge (if not biggest) risk factor for illness.

I really believe you are ahead of a lot of people in your theories regarding germs and how the bad ones can affect us, including sexual orientation.

You are too kind. 😎 Smarter people than me are figuring this stuff out, but my mind is open to listening. Just about any time something reduces fertility (or fitness) in young people you can bet it’s environment 99.9% of the time. Among all environmental factors germs and viruses (and the bodies response to them) stand head and shoulders above the rest.

I really believe you are ahead of a lot of people in your theories regarding germs and how the bad ones can affect us, including sexual orientation.

Ah, but is it necessarily a ‘bad’ germ that would cause someone to be gay. Or is this your biases that are showing.

Right – another thing to consider is if some are not so harmful then why do we have to kill them with antibiotics, etc.?

There is a ballance of germs that keeps us healthy. But outsider germs can make us sick. I wash my hands A LOT and I do my best to never touch door handles in public. That’s where the enemy germs come from.
Yes, bacteria are definitiely germs. The global term is “Pathogen.” That means germs and viruses.

This is off topic but please look on Associated Press today about infection and premature babies – think you will find it interesting

Thanks and yes I did see it. 😎
And on a related note

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have dispelled the widespread belief among obstetricians that, in premature infants, brain injury results from a lack of oxygen, also called hypoxia, when, in fact, infection plays a larger role.

Google: Infection, Not Lack Of Oxygen, Plays Larger Role In Premature Infant Brain Injury
People who don’t take germs seriously are so 20th century. 😎