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Marrah_G

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5. I wonder where they are on the human family tree

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 11:12 AM

Dec 2012

Maybe if they have been cut off from outsiders for a very long time and it's a small population, maybe they are right in that there are no LBGT people among their members. Perhaps the gene pool there is very small?

As for the masturbation.... I can understand that if they are having THAT much sex everyday.

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Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

One Suspects, Sir, Close Observation, Rather Than Questioning, Might Give Other Results.... The Magistrate Dec 2012 #1

you can tell from this one article and some initial conclusions they aren't doing their job right? snooper2 Dec 2012 #3

Suspicion Is Not Certainty, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #14

Very excellent point, "stories generally do not age well" closeupready Dec 2012 #19

this research will be exploited by the anti-gay folks Enrique Dec 2012 #2

I wonder how they'll reconcile the Aka and Ngandu not being Christian. sadbear Dec 2012 #6

Male homosexuality is a genetic trait, so their lack of it is no big deal. DetlefK Dec 2012 #4

But not female? Marrah_G Dec 2012 #13

re DetlefK Dec 2012 #22

Thank you!!!!!! Marrah_G Dec 2012 #23

Huh. My mother was, and still is, quite attractive. Sheldon Cooper Dec 2012 #27

MIL wasnt attractive. daughter, then four boys. last two gay. i read fruther along seabeyond Dec 2012 #29

I wonder where they are on the human family tree Marrah_G Dec 2012 #5

that first question that popped into my mind was: EVER? nt xchrom Dec 2012 #7

Well, I suppose it could be possible Marrah_G Dec 2012 #9

Actually, studies show that people who have frequent sex masturbate more than people who have FSogol Dec 2012 #8

Come on now. How hard is it to teach masturbation? Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #28

There we go... Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #30

Please stop. Just...stop. Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #35

I can't help myself... Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #38

So these people asked members of an African tribe whether or not they masturbated. Nye Bevan Dec 2012 #10

Perhaps they are very open about talking about sex Marrah_G Dec 2012 #12

If some foreign researchers came to my town and started asking people whether they masturbated, Nye Bevan Dec 2012 #18

Conspicuously absent is any mention of the life expectancy of those people slackmaster Dec 2012 #11

I would say "at most" to that. gollygee Dec 2012 #16

I agree. Probably closer to 20 than 30 but it can be hard to tell with someone in such good shape. slackmaster Dec 2012 #17

With so much emphasis placed on childbearing gollygee Dec 2012 #15

Naturally, it wouldn't matter to me if I was the only gay person in the world. closeupready Dec 2012 #20

I couldn't change it Aerows Dec 2012 #26

I like these sentences, near the end of the article. JohnnyLib2 Dec 2012 #21

wouldn't it be possible that in isolated communities a particular gene does not express? La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2012 #24

No masturbation and no homosexual tendencies Aerows Dec 2012 #25

And we should conclude Whovian Dec 2012 #31

The author of the article, Alice Dreger, is considered a transphobe Zorra Dec 2012 #32

If true, then it's possible she frowns on gender role nonconformity closeupready Dec 2012 #36

"homosexuality and masturbation *appeared* to be foreign to both groups" Lex Dec 2012 #33

If this is true ismnotwasm Dec 2012 #34

i did not even get that it was "his" seabeyond Dec 2012 #37