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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How many high-openness people would flip occasionally out of curiosity, or because they wanted to find out if a romantic/sexual relationship was possible with a friend of the “wrong” sex? Would bisexuality become the social default in some cultures? 2/
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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
@slatestarcodex [4/3]https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/ …3 replies 4 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
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That's super interesting. Just bought this... have you read it? https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01824YMCM/ref=pe_386430_122412850_TE_DP …
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Thanks for the pointer; I hadn’t seen it. @edyong209 is terrific; it’s bound to be good!
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I had just clicked on that last tweet to CC
@edyong209 -- beat me to it! Great read, neat hypothesis.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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