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  • TIL,Thank you for dumping obscure biological knowledge!

    I felt the same when I found out roughly 90-99 % of serotonin (predecessor) is produced by a certain type of gut bacteria. For some reason, finding the research was (is? Haven’t checked for a few years) for some reason non-obvious and difficult.

    Now that I think about it, is there a wiki or something where we can share this knowledge? Your artefact would have helped a friend a few years ago…















  • I read one paper behind these claims, and it is interesting? Definitely a wild rabbit hole if you are so inclined. Some highlights:

    Paedophiles also have lower self-reported height than do hebephiles or teleiophiles (Cantor et al., 2007),

    The paper then asserts absolute height is a measure of health.

    The distinction they make is interesting. They discern between:

    — Right- handedness

    — left- handedness

    — mixed handedness

    and — ambigous handedness

    In summary, paedophiles demonstrated high rates of non-right-handedness, … whereas those who had a sexual preference for pubescent children evidenced increased ambiguous-handedness. Analysis of LQ scores indicative of ambiguous-handedness demonstrated that this was the correct classification as opposed to mixed-handedness.

    Results support a view of ambiguous-handedness as less pathological than previously hypothesized, …

    Rates of left-handedness in most neurologically typical populations are at or below about 11% (Perelle & Ehrman, 1994).

    teleiophiles [offenders targeting adults(17+ in this research] were not entirely typical. … with a rate of … 7.4% left-handedness.

    Paedophiles, however, demonstrated an accentuation of atypical lateral preference, with an elevated rate of … left-handedness (14.6%) …

    Seems like solid research, but some of the results and assertions are … well. Let me put it this way: I would like to see more research. It points to an interesting direction (criminal offenders beeing developmentally delayed), but I would like to know if a differently sourced population exhibits the same traits.




  • I would call that a collapse of communication, but I understand what you mean. I agree that stopping to work on oneself and/or disassociating from your partner in a relationship is a huge betrayal and all around shitty behavior. Thanks for clarifying. I’m totally with you on that.

    BTW I once woke someone up to their behavior during a screaming match where I shouted “Why are you like this, we a supposed to be on the same side! Both of us against the problem, not whatever you’re doing.” Well at least I think these were my words, there might have been a lot more swear words … But that was successful only one time, so …