Blenheim, lesbians and Tim Hortons

Blenheim is a small town in Ontario where the major source of entertainment on a Saturday night is cow tipping – so my wife, who knows more about sleepy Canadian towns than I, tells me.

Nevertheless, the town is big enough to have a Tim Hortons and at least two lesbians who, while on a quest to find a more stimulating form of entertainment than bovine unbalancing, decided to grope one another in full view of  those partaking of Tim Hortons’ more modest delicacies.

We may never know whether the negative reaction from a local pastor and the restaurant’s manager was due to Blenheim being a hotbed of prudishness or whether the titillation that men supposedly experience when women kiss was outweighed by the undeniable ugliness of the specimens in question, but the pair was asked to leave.

There aren`t many things more faddish than lesbians but the occupy something to protest the impalpable  with a view to changing the intangible movement is one of them. So now we have Occupy Timmies. This is almost certainly a self defeating effort since Timmies will  double their intake selling coffee and doughnuts to imported well-heeled yahoo occupiers  – while the rest of the sleepy town goes back to cow tipping.

 

Shocking discovery: children are influenced by their parents

Including lesbian parents. A recent study reveals that girls brought up by a lesbian couple are more likely to engage in same sex activities than those brought up by a straight (I almost wrote “normal” – horror of horrors) couple.

Now the excuse can shift from “God made me this way” to “my parents made me this way”.

From here:

The study was part of an ongoing study that, at this stage, involved 77 families, “31 continuously-coupled, 40 separated-mother, and six single-mother families,” and 78 17-year-old children (one family had twins). Of the girls, nearly 50% described themselves as at least partly homosexual in orientation, though 30% out of that 50% were “predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual.” (None of the girls, though, identified themselves as predominantly or exclusively lesbian.) Of the boys, a bit over 20% described themselves as at least partly homosexual in orientation, though 13% out of that 20% described themselves as “predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual.” (Two of the boys identified themselves as predominantly or exclusively gay.) “The … Kinsey self-identifications [of the girls in the study] and lifetime sexual experiences were consistent with Stacey and Biblarz’s (2001) and Biblarz and Stacey’s (2010) theory that the offspring of lesbian and gay parents might be more open to homoerotic exploration and same-sex orientation.”

As to actual sexual behavior, 15% of the girls had had sex with other girls, compared to 5% in a sample of 17-year-old girls at large; 54% of the girls had had sex with boys, compared to 63% in a sample of 17-year-old girls at large. The boys showed no greater participation in homosexual sex compared to the sample of 17-year-old boys at large, but showed a markedly lesser participation in heterosexual sex (38% as opposed to 59%). For both the boys and girls who had had sex, the age of first sexual contact was about a year later than in the samples of 17-year-olds at large. All these differences are statistically significant.

h/t Big Blue Wave