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2017-09-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-11 03:59|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Nature's method of culling the non-productive? Who then, will become the new inhabitants? In light of the recent migrations in Europe, and the debates on immigration here in the States, a rather rhetorical albeit sobering question I suppose.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-11 04:21|| 2017-09-11 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-11 04:31|| 2017-09-11 04:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Should I conclude that Classical Athens had the pill?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-11 05:54|| 2017-09-11 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I still think genetics is the major player here. Although I admit Oral Birth Control has its benefits

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-09-11 05:54|| 2017-09-11 05:54|| Front Page Top

#5 'Sexual orientation' is nature's way of promoting the reproductive success of first born sons and decreasing sibling reproductive rivalry. It's perhaps not surprising that hormonal birth control promotes this phenomena.

Posted by phil_b 2017-09-11 06:00|| 2017-09-11 06:00|| Front Page Top

#6 'Sexual orientation' is nature's way of promoting the reproductive success of first born sons and decreasing sibling reproductive rivalry.

See
Whitehead, N. E. (2007). An antiboy antibody? Re-examination of the maternal immune hypothesis. Journal of Biosocial Science, 39(6), 905-921.‏

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-11 06:25|| 2017-09-11 06:25|| Front Page Top

#7 TLDR; unrestrained use of technology and government by hypergamic women who will do ANYTHING to avoid negative consequences of an unplanned pregnancy is taking down Western civilization.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-09-11 06:59|| 2017-09-11 06:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Muslim families are big. They have no interest in small families. It has been my experience anyway.

Posted by Dale 2017-09-11 07:48|| 2017-09-11 07:48|| Front Page Top

#9 It is an an interesting question. Epigenetics and adaptation to short term evolutionary stresses... such as starvation during famines. It seems that we (scientists) really know less than we (scientists) thought we knew.

Posted by magpie 2017-09-11 13:20|| 2017-09-11 13:20|| Front Page Top

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