I remember being told by a psych prof in college about studies that could turn rats gay. It was as simple as pinching the mother rat’s tail daily to induce stress while she was carrying the babies. The mating behaviors in the offspring were studied later. Supposedly a retrospective study was done following WWII in Germany, considering stress on pregnant women during the war, and males in particular had higher incidence of being gay down the line when born to those stressed women during the war. Fwiw. Not sure I ever found the study, but it has always stuck with me, and the implication and entanglement of nature and nurture and importance of stress management while a woman is pregnant. Those hormones will change and mold the developing baby.
I wonder if the stress causes the woman to develop a baby attracted to its own sex because the stress is telling the baby not to procreate because times are hard...
A male fetus is flooded with testosterone en utero. It changes his brain to be male. Stress causes a rise in cortisol. Cortisol blocks thyroid hormone receptor sites. Thyroid hormones regulate the production of steroidal hormones such as testosterone. Women weren't made to be out killing mammoths and lions (the workplace) while pregnant.
I remember being told by a psych prof in college about studies that could turn rats gay. It was as simple as pinching the mother rat’s tail daily to induce stress while she was carrying the babies. The mating behaviors in the offspring were studied later. Supposedly a retrospective study was done following WWII in Germany, considering stress on pregnant women during the war, and males in particular had higher incidence of being gay down the line when born to those stressed women during the war. Fwiw. Not sure I ever found the study, but it has always stuck with me, and the implication and entanglement of nature and nurture and importance of stress management while a woman is pregnant. Those hormones will change and mold the developing baby.
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I wonder if the stress causes the woman to develop a baby attracted to its own sex because the stress is telling the baby not to procreate because times are hard...
A male fetus is flooded with testosterone en utero. It changes his brain to be male. Stress causes a rise in cortisol. Cortisol blocks thyroid hormone receptor sites. Thyroid hormones regulate the production of steroidal hormones such as testosterone. Women weren't made to be out killing mammoths and lions (the workplace) while pregnant.
That makes so much sense: https://c.tenor.com/saWRs1C3YccAAAAC/spock-dazzling-display.gif