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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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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Just noting that psychopharmacology (generally, afaik) don't act on genes, but the system that developed given a genetic make-up. So this link ("psychopharmacology amazing (...)") is a bit off, imo. On another note: a psychoactive substance once dissolved my sense of gender.
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Right, although most drugs work by poking some protein that is the product of a single gene. Interesting experience… what was it like? How did you feel about it at the time / afterward?
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Interestingly, strict homosexuality (as opposed to various forms of bisexuality) is known only in humans and sheep, I think. (But it's hard to tell with some species like penguins because they pair-bond for life)
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