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rhonda sent me this article that further describes the study which determined that stress hormones can affect the development of the male hypothalamus and create homosexual offspring.

it all sounds good and logical to me, until the end of the article, which proposes again, that homosexuality is a form of 'population control.' i just don't buy it. i can see how dr. ward comes to the conclusion: overpopulation is stressful; stress creates male homos; homos aren't driven to have sex with women; homos = population control.

it seems unlikely to me that 'stress from population overload' would be the cause for women to need to create gay babies. and as i said before, gay people as population control are totally ineffective. what does make sense to me on an evolutionary level is that having gay children becomes necessary to the survival of the children that have already been born.

in tribal societies, where women are having as many children as possible - the goal is to increase population (always the goal of living organisms). now, back when natural selection was still profoundly affecting the human race, something happened where family groups that included gay children survived, and family groups that did not include gay children died off, or at least were unable to thrive.

so here is my developing theory: that stress triggers women to give birth to gay children because the workload of rearing a large family becomes too much to handle. the gay children grow up and are able to assist in supporting the family without adding offspring to it exponentially. so it's a sort of population control, but not in the way most people phrase it: the goal isn't to limit numbers, but to assist in the ability to properly care for the numbers that are being created. in essence, gay people were necessary for human family groups to survive.

family groups with gay children survived the hardships of natural selection because every tenth child provided support, and not more mouths to feed; thus the survival of the gene into modern day society. i call it the 'gay uncle' theory. everyone has a gay uncle. everyone. that gay uncle has been very carefully placed, genetically, for the sole purpose of babysitting you while mommy and daddy go to see a movie.

but things have changed now. stress factors are different. plus we have birth control. we're not trying to have as many babies as possible so as to populate the state of utah. i guess homos are born now because women are stressed about frizzy hair and need an entire subset of people dedicated to the science of good haircare.

of course none of this accounts for lesbians. apparently the stress hormone did not create any lesbos. hmm...