Ya know at this point I don’t know what’s coming out next month. I know a genetics study is due out in very early 2009 but beyond that… EEEEeeeeeeeee.
As for the gibberish from Lyn Sher I can only imagine how bad it’s going to get if they find so much as a weak correlation. Genes probably correlate with everything including all of the things that have nothing to do with genetics. Cochran’s Leprosy and TB examples comes to mind.

Next month Bailey is going to release his genetics study. You can bet if they found even the slightest correlation with SSA and a particular gene the media is going to have a field day. We’ll have to endure months of gay gene silliness before it all

Where’d you hear this, that it’s going to be released next month?
I keep thinking back to that horrid, inarticulate Lyn Sher report on the study. From what she said, one would have thought that Sanders told her they had found a connection, a link, but she was only able to say “it’s very complex” and smile, happy to “know” that it was “genetic.”
Now, as I said before, she was so inarticulate, so unable to explain what the team had found “so far” that I couldn’t determine if she herself had reached her own conclusions, if she was incapable of understanding what they had shared with her or if they had actually shared anything with her other than their belief that there was indeed a biological component to SSA. I have a feeling she had confused “genetic” with “biological” but who knows.? Her report was useless. I know that “complex” is usually a term used when no firm connection has been established.

You mean all this moisturizer and couture clothes I wear isn’t going to attract the women – ah darn it 🙂
Seriously though I wonder how many women are attracted to metrosexual men. I suspect there is more to this movement than marketing. I suspect most women would prefer a well groomed man to one that is – well – a slob. How far the balance between the two extremes is – I couldn’t say.
It is interesting that in subcultures of the gay community (specifically Bears and the Leather community) – the gay metrosexual look is shunned – rather harshly. I like the bears, I really do (ie my partner is a bear) – but sometimes I think they go out of there way to look like plumbers 🙂

Carole,
Your second post was closer to what I was trying to communicate.
Of course, there are cultures which dictate homosexuality and that is one conversation. Then there is the culture that is interpreted by the sensitive individual who almost abhors the idea of the sexuality, sexual roles, etc.. that are the norm. For example, there are girls growing up today whom I know are in lesbian relationships – GIRLS – not women. And many will respond with the… I just don’t want it …. mentality when it comes to the sexuality of boys and men and how it is in their schools, on tv etc… In case anyone has not noticed we are inundated with sex. And so their response has been to be with a girl friend. I wonder how this culture facilitates that option and how these girls will respond later in life – when they have more control over thier own “culture” And then Carole, there are men like the one you describe. They just have grown up with an outlook of the opposite sex that they do not desire that for themselves. So while we can talk about germ theories etc… being inseminated with a parasite or germ etc… while exercising through the course of cultural influences (and culture and influence change over a short period of time btw,) we have a dynamic that is interactive and not isolated in a gene or molecule.

What the heck? My brain must be confused as well. I thought there was only one gay gene study underway.