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Over the years, I've learned to ignore most anything Paglia has to say because its vapid witlessness, flabby political nonsense and stomach churning self-aggrandizement are like total intellectual downers, man. But goddamnit I find myself in agreement with her on the whole gay gene thing. No such thing as gay genes. No such thing as straight genes either. There are only horny genes! Her explanation for homosexuality is total crap however, a pile of sociological scatology that has never held up to empirical evidence, or even the most cursory inventory of one's own life and the lives of one's gay associates or friends, but then facts never stopped our Ms. Camille. How does she explain heterosexuality, which frankly seems far more improbable, far more fraught with danger and failure than homosexuality.
