Re: Mind's Eye Re: sexual orientation

This translates that there is hope for mankind to be able to optimize
their offspring's sexual orientation to the desired one. An old
belief.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Molly <mollyb363@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say that genes only rule rationality when rationality or "mind" rules
> being. A quiet mind opens endless possibility. Epigenetics is changing the
> paradigm as we find our genetic code in flux and responsive to our internal
> environment. Twins separated at birth match their adoptive parents genetic
> code more than their biological. All quite fascinating.
>
> On Monday, September 10, 2012 7:35:52 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote:
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>> I watched some gorillas on television a couple of days back. An all
>> male group were practising homosexuality, but then the women moved in
>> and they reverted to straight. The alpha appeared to dominate the
>> sex, but in fact the others got on with life behind his back. All
>> very human. A couple of weeks back I had a bit of a blow out down the
>> pub. I was accused by a psycho of fancying his wife - all very ape.
>>
>> I find sexual orientation pretty boring. I still get the smarts from
>> time to time, but find sex as commercially presented dull. I'd say
>> each to his or her own if my old job hadn't exposed me to utter
>> perversion. I have a mate into bondage and pain and that's his
>> business. I can't say the same about sex tourism and child abuse such
>> as getting sex from young kids by giving them mobile phones. Most
>> cultures have abusive sex rings and weird rituals. I have a
>> particular disdain for men in skirts waiving incense, pretending
>> holiness and abusing kids.
>>
>> I'm a cuddly sort under whatever enigma I present or is (more
>> accurately I think) perceived by others. Derrida had it somewhere
>> that the pen scratching paper is violence. My favourite sports are
>> violent (cricket and rugby). Sex itself is somewhat more violent than
>> scratching paper with a nib, though our ludic gasps are not usually
>> about pain.
>>
>> I'm not at all sure sexual orientation is about straight, gay, lesbian
>> and so on. Sue's dog has a thing for my duffle-coat, teenage legs as
>> he approaches 'maturity' and is devoted to our female cat. What
>> consenting people do between themselves is generally of no account,
>> though the taboos we have on age and incest are about right.
>>
>> Genetically, we are close to not needing sexual relations for
>> reproduction - either sex can, in principle, reproduce without the
>> other, and again in principle, we could build the 'next model' from
>> chemical constituents.
>>
>> I suspect our economic affairs are little more than some sublimated
>> ape genetics. I'm interested in how gang-rape and abuse cultures come
>> about in an attempt to understand how a sexual orientation infringes
>> emancipation and consenting mutuality - and how we might live free of
>> the domination of genes over rationality (itself somewhat gene-driven).
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