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Not so long ago I started reading Ian Fleming's 'The Man with the Golden Gun', and I was surprised to find - in a section dealing with the file held by British Intelligence on Scaramanga - that the titular villain is suspected of having homosexual tendencies on account of the fact that he cannot whistle!
Course, it's a work of fiction, but the context seems to suggest that Fleming saw a least a grain of truth in the 'fact'. Apparently, gays cannot whistle. Which, if true, would lay to rest all the debate about whether or not homosexuality is 'learned' behavior, as it would hint very strongly indeed at a genetic foundation.
It therefore can't be true ... can it? And besides - and more intriguingly - where the hell did such an idea come from? (providing it's not true. Which it isn't. Surely.) It seems an odd association to make.
Not having any gay pals that I know of, I can't test the theory myself, and a look at snopes turned up nothing.
So where on earth did the idea come from?
Edit [Yith]: Source.
(btw - I heard you. Yes, you. Just having a little test, yes? Just to make sure that ... well, you know ... that you're not good with colours, or anything.)
Course, it's a work of fiction, but the context seems to suggest that Fleming saw a least a grain of truth in the 'fact'. Apparently, gays cannot whistle. Which, if true, would lay to rest all the debate about whether or not homosexuality is 'learned' behavior, as it would hint very strongly indeed at a genetic foundation.
It therefore can't be true ... can it? And besides - and more intriguingly - where the hell did such an idea come from? (providing it's not true. Which it isn't. Surely.) It seems an odd association to make.
Not having any gay pals that I know of, I can't test the theory myself, and a look at snopes turned up nothing.
So where on earth did the idea come from?
Edit [Yith]: Source.
(btw - I heard you. Yes, you. Just having a little test, yes? Just to make sure that ... well, you know ... that you're not good with colours, or anything.)
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