Fat burners create lesbians!??!??

Extreme

I found this article online in The Times of all places, there you go, I do read respectible papers at time too!

"Slimming pills increase chance of lesbian child" by Katie Samuel

"TAKING pills for slimming and thyroid problems during pregnancy may increase the possibility of bearing lesbian daughters, a study has revealed.
Researchers studied thousands of pregnant women to study the effect of prescription drugs on their babies and discovered that the drug thyroxine, used to treat thyroid deficiency, and amphetamine-based slimming pills appear to influence homosexuality among female children.

The results show sexual orientation is affected by prenatal rather than social factors, with mothers of homosexual girls proving eight times more likely to have taken those pills — most noticeably with daughters whose mothers took them during their first three months of pregnancy.

Professor Lee Ellis and his team at Minot State University, North Dakota, compiled the study using the mothers of more than 5,000 students. They discovered thyroid pills were taken by 5.2% of the mothers of lesbians but by only 1% of mothers of female heterosexuals. Slimming pills were taken by 2% of mothers of lesbians but only 0.2% of mothers of heterosexual children. The findings will appear in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, next month.

They also discovered that women who suffered prenatal stress were more likely to have a male homosexual child.

The report concludes: “The most noteworthy findings were that if prenatal therapeutic substances affect offspring sexual orientation, the effects are mainly confined to female offspring and are limited to the first trimester of pregnancy.

“In particular, mothers of the female homosexuals in our sample were significantly more likely than mothers of female heterosexuals to have taken diet pills and thyroid medications during pregnancy.”

It also revealed that some drugs can have the opposite effect — mothers of heterosexual males were 70% more likely to have taken pills to combat nausea than those of gay men.

Ellis said: “This was the first study in that area — looking at the effect of prescribed drugs — we found no evidence of male homosexuality but it did tie up to lesbianism. We were interested in prenatal stress but thought we should look at other prenatal factors and this was not what we expected to find but it was very clear.”

He added that the numbers taking the drugs were small and a larger study should be undertaken.

He said: “It took us a long time to do so I hope someone else can take it further and recompile the data.”

Professor Jim Dornan, vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, called it an “very interesting finding which definitely deserves further study”.

LeeB

but all the study actually shows is that theres a LINK , i mean they havent showed that thyroxine actually causes lesbianism (is that a word). would it be improbable to presume obesity causes lesbianism in offspring, and the mothers were taking thyroxine for obesity. im sure the ones who used thyroxine would also have a higher daily ingestion of choclate? maybe tihs causes lesbianism!

Young Gun

Yep thats absurd. Maybe the image conscious women display some characteristic which their offspring react to in this way. Whats its far more likely to show is that their is a link between some part of your personality that makes you image conscious enough to use these products and the way this influeneces your children in their development.

Neil R

Or possibly that ITS THE FACT THEY ARE LESBIANS THAT MAKES THEM WANNA HAVE A LOWER BODYFAT PERCENTAGE TO LOOK MORE MASCULINE SO THEY TAKE SLIMMING PILLS.?????????????????????????????

And they then try to tell their little offspring (Just how do two Lesbians actually produce children anyway???) that its perfectly normal to be a lesbian and try to influence said little child into being so themselves; Parental pressure (I believe) is a social factor.

"Have a lie down on my couch" said Dr Freud to the Journalist.......

LeeB

you mean youve never wtached the film... debbie does dawn - and dave! :mrgreen:

lol.. yes you can always count on me to lower the tone!!!

flick161

I must ask all my lesbian mates about that one... Made me chuckle though...

bettyboo

my god, people get paided to do these studies

xx

LeeB

actually, thinking on... i have a friend who takes thyroxine for a thyroid deficiency.... who has a young baby.... so i think i may point out to her that her daughter is going to grow up to be a lesbian.. see what her reaction is!! lol