Women who smoke often are born gay and lesbian

In the book, a neurologist from the Netherlands Dr. Dick Swaab argues that sexual orientation affects the child's lifestyle and habits of his mother during pregnancy. And if a woman smokes in a position, by the same token, it increases the likelihood that her unborn son will be gay.

smoking during pregnancy

Receiving drugs or smoking during pregnancy   Turn your gay son and a lesbian daughter of. So says a Dutch professor of neurology Dick Swaab, who published a book has caused a wave of negative comments from his colleagues. Professor Swaab sure child sexual orientation   It laid in the womb, but of a set of some genes or chromosomes, and under the influence of the image of a woman's life.

smoking during pregnancy

"It is considered that the development of man after birth is very important in the manifestation of sexual orientation, but there is no evidence to support this view - says professor in the book" We are our brains. "- Growing in lesbian families do not become lesbians, and the boys fathers gays do not choose as sexual partners of men. Absolutely there is no evidence that homosexuality is a choice or a consequence of education. It all depends on the development of the child's brain during pregnancy of his mother, the smallest chemical changes " .

smoking during pregnancy

As evidence, the professor cites that in 1940-50-ies more than two million mothers receiving medications for the prevention of miscarriage. It led to a surge in the number of gay and bisexual men among their children. According to the professor, as the child sexual orientation   affect nicotine or drugs from the group of amphetamines, stress the expectant mother and the presence of as much as possible from the older brother was born a boy. These arguments are disputed by scientists from other countries, who call them completely unscientific and even offensive to gay people (it turns out that their orientation is a consequence of the impact of some pathologies).

However, smoking during pregnancy   bears and many other hazards to the health of the child. That is why women need to give up this bad habit, and the sooner the better. Although more difficult to do it today - scientists from the Massachusetts found that in modern cigarette has more advanced and effective system of supply of nicotine into the lungs than in the past. This increases the smoker addicted to tobacco. (READ MORE)

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