I shared a pizza last night at Ci-Ci's with a most interesting man. Â Turns out he is a thoraic/heart surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital here in Dallas. Â One does NOT expect a doctor to be eating at Ci-Ci's but stranger things have happened, I guess.
It was late, about 7:30, when I stopped in for a bite to eat on my way to the pharmacy. Â He was in line directly ahead of me and had just ordered a special pizza loaded with everything. Â "Would you like to try a slice? he asked.
"Sure, why not?" Â I replied, Â So he invited me to eat with him. Â He was quite a conversationalist and, I imagine, quite lonely. Â In the course of the next hour I learned he had lost his wife to uterine cancer six years ago and had reared his two daughters--now nineteen and twenty-one--as a single dad. Both now attend Stanford.
He graduated from Harvard and we discussed everything, including how science and religion often come into conflict with one another. Â To illustrate, he told me something that I did not know. Â
He said that when a baby is born, as it goes through the birth canal, it gets a final "wash" of hormones from its mother, which determines its attraction to the other sex. Â Ideally, the child, if a girl, receives a wash of about 75 per cent estrogen and 25% testosterone. Â If a boy, that percentage is reversed. However, occasionally, the mother's body makes a mistake. Â Perhaps a boy gets a girl's wash, for instance, or vice versa for a girl. Â Then one is attracted to the same sex rather than the opposite sex. Â
If a 50-50 wash occurs, a person is bi-sexual, though that, he said, is extremely rare.  "Most people," he said, "who claim to be bi-sexual  are really homosexual who are living a heterosexual life because of stereotypical expectations.
Isn't that interesting?
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