Being gay is curable

Morba · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:20

According to Chinese scientists testing on mice at least...

Apparently the lack of serotonin can cause you to prefer the same sex as yourself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12825688

I know of a few men who have said they became gay later in life (as well as a few who just took a long time to admit it (one has children)), I wonder if a lack of serotonin later in life caused the change in sexual preference?

J.T · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:21

Who knew... :/

'Wes · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:21

I <3 you.

SteveOBHave · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:21

So does that mean that taking loads of E makes you gay... at least temporarily till your body recovers?

Dj_Jestar · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:22

So depression == gay?

~>Dg<~ · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:22

if you think about it logically a chemical imbalance would seem most obvious answer.

Dj_Jestar · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:22

SteveOBHave said:
So does that mean that taking loads of E makes you gay... at least temporarily till your body recovers?

Hahah, on the up you are MASSIVELY HETERO!, but on the way down.. dang!

Cosimo · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:23

Dj_Jestar said:
So depression == gay?

Only for mice.

LordSplodge · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:25

Sexuality in mice is nothing much like that of humans. So I doubt much will come from this. Apart from the Chinese creating an army of Super Gay Mice.

Castiel · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:26

Hmmm, sounds a bit dodgy to me.

(surreptitiously reaches for serotonin tablets......)

kwerk · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:26

LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

Dj_Jestar · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:27

kwerk said:
LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

HAHAHA! I hadn't noticed that!

Jakeee · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:29

kwerk said:
LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

Time to research why priest like little boys

Theophany · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:30

MICE ARE GAY??? :eek:

Abraham · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:31

So seratonin makes you gay (happy) but lack of it makes you gay (bumming) ?

Spektor · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:31

kwerk said:
LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

They are clearly funding researching on how to stop priests from getting their fingers mucky in small boys and stumbled across this. Then all they will have to do is prove oxygen cures sex before marriage and they will have scientifically eradicated the true evils of the world \o/

Castiel · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:32

kwerk said:
LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

Where does it state that?

Even it it was, so what? Does that automatically make the research wrong or invalid?

Not that for one minute I think that chemical responses in Mice relate to Humans, but dismissing research out of hand simply because of the source of funding is a nonsense, especially as Nature is a reputable journal.

Mr_White · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:33

kwerk said:
LOL the research was funded by the Vatican.

Seems legit.

Pestilence · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:34

Castiel said:
Where does it state that?

Even it it was, so what? Does that automatically make the research wrong or invalid?

Not that for one minute I think that chemical responses in Mice relate to Humans, but dismissing research out of hand simply because of the source of funding is a nonsense, especially as Nature is a reputable journal.

I took it more in the sense not that it's immediately dismissable because it was (even in part) Vatican funded, but rather the humour that the Vatican may be paying for research to find a scientific "cure" for their fiddlin' priests.

dazzerd · 24 Mar 2011 at 16:35

I read it as lack of serotonin means you dont give a damn what you hump; regardless of the sex of the thing to be humped!

Being gay is curable

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