Star Trek Actor George Takei Comes Out

sraj:
>> For normal kind of sexuality in a space hab, space cruiser, space
>> outposts, you would need equal number of men and women.

Lucio de Souza Coelho:
> It depends on how you define "normal kind of sexuality". I assume
> that you mean men and women partitioned in stable couples.

Not even then, unless everyone is in a couple at all times. For
example, if women marry early, men marry late, and widows remarry,
you could have a stable population of (for example) 20% children 5%
unmarried women, 15% unmarried men, and 30% married men, and 30%
married women.

Btw, I find it implausible that anything would have converted me
into a homosexual.

The natural instinct is not to have as many children as possible,
but to have as many great-great-...-grandchildren as possible.
There are, crudely speaking, two strategies toward that end: to have
as many children as possible as soon as possible (r-selected), or to
have children with the maximum chance of surviving to have children
(K-selected). Human instinct includes aspects of both, weighted
slightly toward K-selection.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Lucio de Souza Coelho
wrote:
>
> On 10/31/05, sraj wrote:
> >
> > For normal kind of sexuality in a space hab, space cruiser,
space outposts, you would need equal number of men and women.
>
> It depends on how you define "normal kind of sexuality". I assume
that
> you mean men and women partitioned in stable couples.
>
> > Gay rights is unfortunately a double edged sword. While one can
sympathize with the
> > idea that two persons of the same sex would like to live their
life together, we cannot
> > escape the fact that children are born and they grow up in the
same environment, and
> > they inculcate the values of that environment. And with the kind
of hardsell made
> > possible by modern communication and media 90% of humans could
be converted into
> > homosexuals.
>
> Your opinion that sexual orientation is defined by the environment
> alone would be considered controversial at best nowadays. Anyhow,
even
> if it were an environment-defined characteristic, what exactly is
the
> intrinsic problem of a society with a homosexuality rate of 90%?
>
> > My feeling on the subject is, homosexuality should be tolerated
but kept under wrap. Part > of the problem with sexuality on planet
earth may be that it has become important for us > to control the
human population, while the natural instinct is to have as many
children as > possible. With the promise that in space habs it will
be possible to accomodate hundreds > of billions of people, family
planning will hopefully no longer be required, and we will see >
once again the family cohesiveness that used to be seen in large
families.
>
> Although for some time (two or three centuries, I would guess)
there
> will be probably no need of population control in space, in the
long