Just a thought about homosexuality...

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Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: Stefan
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Man, if you're a man and want to suck dick then just do it and be happy.....but don't try and find ways to justify it to the other 95% of the people who don't share your views on sexuality.

Come over here sexy boy... give daddy a :lips:

:Q

You cheatin' bastard! :|

:p

Cheers Stefan :beer:
 

rudeguy

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Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Stefan
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Man, if you're a man and want to suck dick then just do it and be happy.....but don't try and find ways to justify it to the other 95% of the people who don't share your views on sexuality.

Come over here sexy boy... give daddy a :lips:

:Q

You cheatin' bastard! :|

:p

Cheers Stefan :beer:

:shocked:
 

thomsbrain

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Originally posted by: notfred
It is known that the male sex chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear. In otherwords, males will fail to exist, leaving the female with no means to reproduce.

I call BS. Where's your evidence? Male humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and male animals have been around for millions. We still make up 50% of the population.

no we don't.

edit: i can't actually find a good site to support this, although it is what i've read in textbooks. alas.
 

midwestfisherman

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Originally posted by: Stefan
I could be WAY off base here but here goes...

It is known that the male sex chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear. In otherwords, males will fail to exist, leaving the female with no means to reproduce.

In a thread in P&N, apparently there has been a discovery of some DNA that seems to be linked to homosexuality.

I'm just wondering if there might be a possibility that homosexuality and the shrinking of the male sex chromosome are linked. Maybe homosexuality could somehow be the bridge to enabling females to reproduce once males disappear.

Both female and male homosexuals tend to exhibit a more androgenous behaviour and I wonder if androgeny is the human of the future.


What a bunch of horse hooey!
 

midwestfisherman

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Originally posted by: Ronstang
Man, if you're a man and want to suck dick then just do it and be happy.....but don't try and find ways to justify it to the other 95% of the people who don't share your views on sexuality.


Wow.....tell us how you really feel......lol
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: brigden
What's the fascination with homosexuality 'round here?

I assume by "'round here" you mean America. Because it's an American fascination.
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: aplefka
Does this mean I could chryogenically freeze myself for 150-200 years or so, then sell myself on sheBay for like $100,000,000,000 (inflation and everything)?

Fixed.
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
The world will end before males die off.

Honestly, if men were becoming extinct, they'd destroy the whole world before they went.
 

Shawn

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eh, there is no way females would evolve naturally to be able to reproduce w/o a male. if males become extinct so do females. the only way around this if we can find a way to keep us going artificially.
 

Rogue

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Did anyone else see that he said "10 million years"? Ten million fvcking years and you're worrying about it now? In ten million years, this galaxy will likely not even exist anymore! We'll be banging aliens on other planets Captain Kirk style and making entirely new races of people by then! Ten million years...........:D
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: Supercharged
eh, there is no way females would evolve naturally to be able to reproduce w/o a male. if males become extinct so do females. the only way around this if we can find a way to keep us going artificially.

Ever heard someone say a woman looks like a rose? Or a beautiful tulip? Think flowers. Report back when you've caught on, cutie pie.
 

aidanjm

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The idea that male humans might become extinct is wild speculation from scientists. Even the wildest of pseculators offers a timeframe of 100,000 years. Not something we have to worry about.
 

Martin

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Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: notfred
It is known that the male sex chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear. In otherwords, males will fail to exist, leaving the female with no means to reproduce.

I call BS. Where's your evidence? Male humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and male animals have been around for millions. We still make up 50% of the population.

no we don't.

edit: i can't actually find a good site to support this, although it is what i've read in textbooks. alas.


At birth, we actually make up like 51%, by 65+, its down to 45%.
 

illustri

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don't worry I'll make up for the alleged decrease in Y due to homosexuality

/pass my card out to your hot girl friends
 

Gibsons

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Originally posted by: Stefan
Originally posted by: Gibsons
Originally posted by: notfred
It is known that the male sex chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear. In otherwords, males will fail to exist, leaving the female with no means to reproduce.

I call BS. Where's your evidence? Male humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and male animals have been around for millions. We still make up 50% of the population.


Yep.

The Y chromosome getting smaller is not evidence that we're moving to some sort of asexual means of reproduction. Doing it with technology is a different story.

I didn't say that we were going to become asexual, I'm just throwing out ideas here. The Y chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear in about 10 million years (according to what I've heard).

Maybe the sex a person takes will no longer be the result of an XY chromosome pair, but rather just a string of genes on an XX chromosome.

Just because it's getting smaller now doesn't mean that it will continue to do so indefinitely.

ah heck, HardcoreRobot said it better than I did:

the average weight of an nba player is 10 lbs more than it was 10 years ago. do you think that means in 100 years we will have nba players that weigh 325?

the world record for 100 M dash is consistently getting broken. do you think that means eventually people will be able to do it in 1 second?

basically, its natural for things to behave cyclically.
 

Ryan

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I odn't see what's wrong with men and women exhibiting sexual roles ofter reserved for the opposite sex - androgeny is cool, besides, Annie Lennox ROCKS.
 

OverVolt

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Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
even if there is evidence it is shrinking that doesnt mean its going to dwindle to nothing

the average weight of an nba player is 10 lbs more than it was 10 years ago. do you think that means in 100 years we will have nba players that weigh 325?

the world record for 100 M dash is consistently getting broken. do you think that means eventually people will be able to do it in 1 second?

basically, its natural for things to behave cyclically.
But alot of that is due to technology, creatine, steriods, better workout equipment, the general population eating more food, hormone therapies etc.

 

Siddhartha

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: notfred
It is known that the male sex chromosome is shrinking and will eventually disappear. In otherwords, males will fail to exist, leaving the female with no means to reproduce.

I call BS. Where's your evidence? Male humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and male animals have been around for millions. We still make up 50% of the population.
you mean 49% of the population.

and they are already working and succeeding with female asexual reproduction.

Asexual reproduction is not as successful as sexual reproduction in producing genetic variability. The long term survival of a species depends on genetic variability. If everyone was the same, a disease could wipe out the entire population.

In the long run asexual reproduction is a dead end.