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NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE

Feelg blue? Listls? Down the dumps? Inpable of experiencg pleasure any way, shape, or form? Then you might be gay! * homosexual mice *

Here's how Amerins have tracked over recent s rponse to "In your view, is beg gay or lbian somethg a person is born wh, or due to factors such as upbrgg and environment? In the late 1990s, nversatn around a "gay gene" was very ntroversial. "Gay" seems like the wrong word here.

SCIENTISTS TURN MICE GAY BY DEPRIVG THEM OF SEROTON

" If the mice were gay, they wouldn't have ntued to try to have sex wh femal, right? It's also probably a mistake to speculate that there's a lk humans between seroton levels and homosexualy, as Gawker's Seth Abramovch do.

"Then you might be gay! "Really, 's a bad ia to e terms like "gay" and "straight" when talkg about mice at all.

“GAY” MICE CAN MAKE BABI?

"This, and the wispread nature of homosexual behavur animals, supports the ia that sexual preference is more of a ntuum.

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)Yong go on to quote the Columbia profsor Milton Waberg: As Waberg says, the assumptn that there’s a clear le between heterosexual and homosexual behavur “is out of step wh the field of sexualy rearch. Then you might be gay! ]However, a preference for femal uld be "rtored" by jectg seroton to the implitns of all this on the gay movement are touchy to say the least, and potentially even vastatg.

HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?

Geic patterns associated wh homosexual behavur might help people who have only heterosexual sex to fd more partners.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HOMOSEXUAL MICE

Scientists Turn Mice Gay by Deprivg Them of Seroton .

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