• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I suppose he should have said “gay ewes would be hobbled” and lesbian sheep would be incapable of coupling up".

    His quote shows that people say there’s no way of knowing one way or another, like you say, but Doctorow changed the language to be a bit more suggestive of certainty that the phenomenon exists.

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      Yeah I just added a bit of context after reading a couple of articles on the matter. I don’t know if you saw my edit, because I saw your reaction shortly after posting it.

      The main takeaway sens to be that the academics aren’t really interested in female sexuality behavior and it isn’t studied.