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Biologic Contamination


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RoseGoesToYale

You mean like can exposure to pollution change people's sexual orientation? No.

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I don't think there's any correlation at all.

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I've moved this thread from 'Questions about Asexuality' to 'Philosophy, Politics, and Science'.
 
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Anthracite_Impreza

Have you tried Googling it?

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There is a school of thought which suggests oestrogen and oestrogen mimicking chemicals in the environment are having a feminising effect on the males of some species, maybe contributing to the decline in human male sperm counts etc, but as with many situations, multiple factors are involved, and its difficult to prove the effects of only one variable 

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It's a poorly phrased question: cells don't have a sexuality, multicellular whole organisms do. Oestrogen is a good example of this: it's a signaling molecule from one organ to others, which is only meaningful in terms of the whole body. In fact, you could argue it's only meaningful in terms of at least two whole organisms. So your one question has at least three components: the effect of pollution on individual cells, the propagation of the cellular effects to the functioning of the organ, and how any changes in function affect the sexuality of the organism. Which one of those are you interested in?

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AmorphousBlob
On 9/3/2019 at 12:38 PM, SkyenAutowegCaptain said:

There is a school of thought which suggests oestrogen and oestrogen mimicking chemicals in the environment are having a feminising effect on the males of some species, maybe contributing to the decline in human male sperm counts etc, but as with many situations, multiple factors are involved, and its difficult to prove the effects of only one variable 

Are you talking about phytoestrogen? Because any potential link between that and masculinity/testosterone/whatever either hasn’t been proven in an actual study or has been disproven.

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