Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
"I often use the word 'attractive' to describe something that looks good IMO.... it sounds better than simply 'pretty' or 'nice'."I agree.
I don't think there's anything more patronising to a girl who looks stunning than to say "Aww you look cute/nice/pretty". Girls are cute/nice/pretty. Grown females are attractive/alluring/picturesque.
-AC
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Stunning, striking, seductive, divine, anything else along those lines 😂
Gay DNA Found
Article by Steph SmithChicago, Illinois - In the first-ever study combing the entire human genome for genetic determinants of male sexual orientation, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has identified several areas that appear to influence whether a man is straight or gay.
UIC's Brian Mustanski, working with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, found stretches of DNA that appeared to be linked to sexual orientation on three different chromosomes in the nucleus of cells of the human male.
"There is no one 'gay' gene," said Mustanski, a psychologist in the UIC department of psychiatry and lead author of the study. "Sexual orientation is a complex trait, so it's not surprising that we found several DNA regions involved in its expression."
His research will be published in the March issue of the biomedical journal Human Genetics.
The genomes of 456 men from 146 families with two or more gay brothers were analyzed.
While earlier studies had focused solely on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes, the present study examined all 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes in addition to the X chromosome. The other sex chromosome, called Y, was not explored because it is not believed to contain many genes.
Identical stretches of DNA on three chromosomes -- chromosomes 7, 8 and 10 -- were found to be shared in about 60 percent of the gay brothers in the study, compared to less than 50 percent expected by chance. The region on chromosome 10 correlated with sexual orientation only if it was inherited from the mother.
"Our study helps to establish that genes play an important role in determining whether a man is gay or heterosexual," said Mustanski. "The next steps will be to see if these findings can be confirmed and to identify the particular genes within these newly discovered chromosomal sequences that are linked to sexual orientation."
The University of California at San Diego, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles were also involved in the study which was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
This referring to the ""twin paradox". If a set of identical twins has a homosexual then there is a 60% chance that the other twin is homosexual too. Fraternal twins have a lower number of 40%. This studies were conducted with twins in single home, seperate homes or twins that were long lost to each other. It's quite fascinating.