Eye dilation test to determine sexuality preferences?

Italian ladies in the 16th century also knew this and used to put drops of Belladonna (deadly nightshade) into their eyes so their pupils dilated, making them more attractive. Belladonna means "beautiful lady" in Italian. Very cool post, ty for sharing. [Center][IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/2ih6qoo.jpg[/IMG][/Center]

[center][/center]LOL ^_^ you're welcome ...I best be getting to preparing my infamous 16th Century "Clay flavored with Lavender" dish. Takes some work to get it tasting weird enough for everyone's liking (Sorry Luke=P). S:)

I believe they used to eat it during pregnancy for minerals and prevention of nausea. Lavender can be consumed if it's natural and it has calming properties and it freshens the breath. *Pregnant women in many indigenous and traditional cultures very commonly consume clay, especially to reduce nausea. Since clays contain a very large amount of trace minerals of all sorts, this most likely contributes to the development of a healthy fetus. Scientific analyses of clays selected by pregnant women in Nigeria show that eating as little as 500 mg (about the equivalent of two Tylenol capsules) per day can satisfy nearly 80 percent of a pregnant woman's calcium needs.

That is quite interesting, & coincidentally I've been taking a look into this synthetic drug quite recently: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol]Diethylstilbestrol[/url] [url=http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/DES]Cancer Risk DES[/url] It was administered to women in the womb, during pregnancy to help prevent miscarriage (1940 to 1971). There are stats that indicate women that were exposed to this drug had a high-rate of bi-sexual or lesbian daughters. A possible case of the Pharmaceutical Industry accidentally creating individuals that may be predisposed to having an alternative sexual orientation, when born from a Mother exposed to DES during pregnancy? S:)

Very interesting, that study is similar to new findings which suggest that homosexuality is caused by sensitivity to hormones a fetus is exposed to in the womb. [Center]*******[/Center] [i]“It’s not genetics. It’s not DNA. It’s not pieces of DNA. It’s epigenetics,” says Sergey Gavrilets, a NIMBioS researcher and an author on the paper that outlines the new theory of homosexuality, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology. “The hypothesis we put forward is based on epigenetic marks,” he says.[/i] To be specific, the new theory suggests that homosexuality is caused by epigenetic marks, or “epi-marks,” related to sensitivity to hormones in the womb. These are compounds that sit on DNA and regulate how active, or inactive certain genes are, and also control when during development these genes are most prolific. Gavrilets and his colleagues believe that gene expression may regulate how a fetus responds to testosterone, the all-important male sex hormone. They further argue that epi-marks may help to buffer a female fetus from high levels of testosterone by suppressing receptors that respond to testosterone, for example, (thus ensuring normal fetal development even in the presence of a lot of testosterone) or to buffer a male fetus from low levels of testosterone by upregulating receptors that bind to the hormone (ensuring normal fetal development even in the absence of high levels of testosterone). Normally, these epi-marks are erased after they are activated, but if those marks are passed down to the next generation, the same epi-marks that protected a man in utero may cause oversensitivity to testosterone among his daughters, and the epi-marks that protected a woman in utero may lead to undersensitivity to testosterone among her sons. [Center]*******[/Center] Source: [url=http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/13/new-insight-into-the-epigenetic-roots-of-homosexuality/]New Insight into the (Epi)Genetic Roots of Homosexuality[/url]

Good article Svanya. Maybe just a matter of finding a way to erase the marks after giving birth, if needed & if possible. I do believe that is not the only cause, as damage to the brain's frontal lobe in men can also result in a change in sexual orientation. Although, this new study might be on the right track in identifying a common cause. And they may also discover what exactly makes these marks stay present (or not erase themselves), & of which could be a many number of scenarios/exposures etc. S:)