Asexuality?
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Asexuality?
Don't know much about this asexuality but was wondering if any of the biology geeks know if this is a real heritable condition?
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Re: Asexuality?
Crumple wrote:Don't know much about this asexuality but was wondering if any of the biology geeks know if this is a real heritable condition?
There was a bbc article on it the other week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16552173
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And just how would one inherit it? Seems fairly self defeating. Wait... Damn those Puritans!!! 
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Could be like the gay gene idea and just pass on with later kids or something? Could be the faulty genetic mechanism is a toggle and some offspring are hypersexed to compensate?andrewclunn wrote:And just how would one inherit it? Seems fairly self defeating. Wait... Damn those Puritans!!!
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Re: Asexuality?
Truly asexual females, given certain social motivations and pressures, could just lie back and think of England, and so could reproduce quite successfully.
Truly asexual males, on the other hand, would presumably not be passing on their genes...
(I use the word "truly" to remove the category of people temporarily not feeling sexual, for whatever reason...)
Truly asexual males, on the other hand, would presumably not be passing on their genes...
(I use the word "truly" to remove the category of people temporarily not feeling sexual, for whatever reason...)
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Re: Asexuality?
Far too simplistic, - excluding people 'temporarily not feeling sexual', still leaves a vast multidimensional spectrum from sexual to asexual. The definition that's been settled on for asexuality is about sexual attraction. It doesn't mean there can't be any physical arousal, sex drive, or desire for romantic intimacy, - which are all distinctly different. So assuming each of these things has a simple single-gene genetic cause (which is probably quite a silly assumption anyway), there's no reason each of them couldn't be passed on separately.JimC wrote:Truly asexual females, given certain social motivations and pressures, could just lie back and think of England, and so could reproduce quite successfully.
Truly asexual males, on the other hand, would presumably not be passing on their genes...
(I use the word "truly" to remove the category of people temporarily not feeling sexual, for whatever reason...)
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One of our fair Ratz ladies used to say she was asexual. 
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Is she currently schtupping another Ratzian perhaps?Gawdzilla wrote:One of our fair Ratz ladies used to say she was asexual.
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Let's just say she's heavily into sea food, and vice versa.Elessarina wrote:Is she currently schtupping another Ratzian perhaps?Gawdzilla wrote:One of our fair Ratz ladies used to say she was asexual.
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How do you know?Gawdzilla wrote:Let's just say she's heavily into sea food, and vice versa.Elessarina wrote:Is she currently schtupping another Ratzian perhaps?Gawdzilla wrote:One of our fair Ratz ladies used to say she was asexual.
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