2006-06-28

Hey miss...You're fetus is queer

Recent research has shown that the the chances of a man being gay increases by 1/3 for each older brother someone has.

"These results support a prenatal origin to sexual orientation development in men and indicate that the fraternal birth-order effect is probably the result of a maternal 'memory' for male gestations or births," Bogaert writes in his report in PNAS Early Edition. A woman's body may see a male fetus as "foreign," Bogaert explains, and her immune response to subsequent male fetus's may grow progressively stronger. If this immune theory were correct, then the link between the mother's immune reaction and the child's future sexual orientation would probably be some effect of maternal anti-male antibodies on the sexual differentiation of the brain. With each male offspring the antibody buildup will increase causing lasting damage.

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