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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (18585)	3/15/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: Ignacio Mosqueira	Respond to of 108807

I am sure children do complicate the equation though not from personal experience :) No that it applies directly but sexuality in ducks actually has both possibilities involved. The female duck may never see its father so it know instinctively what it should look for when it comes time to mate. On the other hand the male duck falls in love with its mother as soon as it is born and when it grows up it will look for something that looks like her. If you place a male duckling to be raised by a different species that male duck will forever be condemned to chasing females which can not possibly understand his signals: a tragicomedy if ever there was one. It may well be that the picture is more complicated for humans, but I have no doubt that some aspects are given to us at birth. I certainly have early memories of my sexual aesthetics and while some have changed others have not. Not at all. But if truly taking a look at oneself were not enough there is mounting scientific evidence. Just recently a researcher looking a ears found a statistical correlation with lesbianism. Unless one argues that lesbians like use ears differently (which would be interesting in itself) and so overtime modify them, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is a genetic component in the mix.