Lesbian and her straight identical twin sister may hold key to human sexuality

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Lesbian and her straight identical twin sister may hold key to human sexuality

A lesbian twin and her straight sister have been studied by scientists who are searching for answers about human sexuality.
Researchers hoping to identify genetic and environmental factors associated with sexuality hit the jackpot when they discovered identical twins Sarah Nunn, who is attracted to men, and Rosie Albewhite, who is attracted to women.
The 29-year-old sisters were investigated by scientists as part of a study aiming to learn more about how sexuality develops in childhood.
The sisters were among 55 other twins studied by researchers at the University of Essex in England.
Sarah recalled Rosie’s tomboy tendencies as they were growing up, telling The Times her boyfriends “instantly felt more at home” with her sister.
“She liked [soccer], talked about boy things, played video games,” she said.
“They’d be like, ‘Sarah, you’re really boring. I’m going to go and play with Rosie.'”
“I’d get jealous that they liked her better.”


But Sarah was quick to understand that her twin wasn’t interested in boys romantically.
“When they tried to get romantic with Rosie she’d say, ‘That’s not me.’ Then they came back,” she explained.
The new research will build on previous scientific studies that searched for signs of how sexuality, such as gender-atypical mannerisms of behavior, manifests before puberty.
Academics have struggled to produce concrete results in the past due to difficulties determining whether reported behavior patterns were remembered accurately.
But the new research using dozens of twins and photographs from their childhoods could shed light on the subject.
University of Essex psychology academic Gerulf Rieger and his colleague Tuesday Watts asked Sarah, Rosie and other twins with “discordant sexual orientations” to send them childhood pictures so they could be shown to strangers who were unaware of the purpose of the experiment.
The strangers were then asked to try and spot how the signs of the twins’ behavior, clothing, and play diverged and pinpoint how and when it happened.
The study is somewhat controversial, as suggesting firm links exist between sexuality and gender could be seen as reinforcing stereotypes about male and female behavior, which some say is harmful.

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I can't help but wonder if it isn't all biological but perhaps a spiritual component as well.

Of course that operates on the presumption that one subscribed to a faith.

Sent from my evil cell phone.

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I can't help but wonder if it isn't all biological but perhaps a spiritual component as well.

Of course that operates on the presumption that one subscribed to a faith.

Sent from my evil cell phone.

Or simply a choice based on curiosity

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Identical twins are born with identical genes. But scientists, like Bruce Lipton, have been saying for quite some time that genes are not our destiny. For example, identical twins, on average, die ten years apart. And just like the rest of us, they often die of different degenerative diseases. So the above report is not surprising; it's just one more indication that genes are not the all important factor.

It's unfortunate that many people mistakenly think that everything is genetic, especially when it comes to degenerative diseases. Very few diseases (rare diseases) are determined by genes alone.

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Genes just mean a predispostion for or not, you can still destroy yourself with eating and drinking and drugs