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Whoa whoa whoa, we talking taking or giving?

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I knew I forgot something, we'll just have to go with 'whichever applies to you' [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I don't think whether people like giving is relevant.

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Ok, someone(tm) make a new and revised poll. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Does having had anal sex include giving but not receiving it?

Because the debate seems to be over the pleasure, or lack thereof, of being on the receiving end, not the giving end.

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Does having had anal sex include giving but not receiving it?

Because the debate seems to be over the pleasure, or lack thereof, of being on the receiving end, not the giving end.

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I think it was decided that the poll means receiving.

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Worst thread ever.

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Worst thread ever.

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Hahahaha if it helps I'm interested in this thread for my girlfriends benefit

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Is her name Craig?

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Is her name Craig?

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Haha

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Everyone here knows the intense physical pleasure of a good bowel movement.

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Ummmm, isn't the pleasure there derived from the relief of releasing something OUT of your body?

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From a strictly physical perspective, the nerve endings in the rectum can't tell the difference. They're responding to non-direction-specific pressure stimulation (even though other parts of the body know what's going on).

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This is the thread that keeps on giving.

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If homosexuality is genetic (trendy view nowadays and one I actually agree with), now that it is increasingly ok to come out of the closet, won't homosexuality be naturally selected out? (i.e the gay gene won't be passed on). In past generations homosexuality was repressed and so gay people were forced into child-producing hetrosexual relationships. As that changes, will homosexuality be naturally selected out?

[/ QUOTE ]No because the genes that typically would make a guy gay, could make a female more attractive. There probably isn't just one "gay gene", but a number of genes in combination with environmental factors.

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Another possibility is that a recessive "gay gene" confers some sort of survival advantage in heterozygous individuals. What that might be I have no idea (better fashion sense gives males with one copy of gay gene a better chance of getting laid? :-) ).


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Clearly, there exist genes that give people a higher sex drive and impel them to have more sex and procreate more than other people. An over-concentration of these genes causes people to sexually target members of the same sex rather than the opposite sex as with normal heterosexuals.

OK, maybe not, but that at least sounds plausible, right?

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K, seriously, did anyone even bother reading my first response? Jesus. I feel so.. so.. so.. neglected!!!