If there were street drugs that temporarily changed sexual orientation, in either direction…How many gay people would choose to be straight, to avoid discrimination? How many straight people would choose to be gay, to avoid the difficult issues in mixed-sex relationships? 1/
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It looks unlikely that we will get answers to these questions, because behavioral genetics is unhelpful. It’s amazing that psychopharmacology works at all, considering that it now appears all mental/behavioral traits depend on thousands of genes. 3/3 https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/perspectives-complex-genetics-same-sex-sexual-behavior …pic.twitter.com/VB9SDVycyV
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Oh, and relevantly, a fascinating speculation about why behavioral genetics is so complicated. (Spoiler: security by obscurity, to foil behavior-manipulating parasites.) Work by Marco del Giudice, commentary by
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Ooh, fun scenario. Predictions: High openness people will try it a few times maybe. <I was experimenting in college> will become more mainstream. Closeted homosexuals or those with strong social pressures against it will take it long term.
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If it was 1980, way more people would "straighten" themselves than would today. There will be a short burst of use in the incel communities of people who can't manage heterosexual relationships going gay. If this works, it will be severely stigmatized.
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I hadn’t thought about that… would certainly be another consideration for many.
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Those are interesting questions. I'd certainly try it, with my husband's consent. I really couldn't see it making me attracted to any existing friends though - I seem to have a type that I *would* be sexually attracted to, and none of them are it.
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