There was also an interesting study on sexual behaviour of 941 heterosexual men by Evans, Bond, and MacRae last year which found no racial differences in numbers of sexual partners or condom use From: SteveSlr@aol.com Message-ID: <29709846.243ba521@aol.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:57:53 EDT To: h-bd@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 4 Reply-To: SteveSlr@aol.com Subject: [h-bd] Re: Schizophrenia/crime/race Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: Ian.Pitchford@scientist.com writes: << There was also an interesting study on sexual behaviour of 941 heterosexual men by Evans, Bond, and MacRae last year which found no racial differences in numbers of sexual partners or condom use.>> I'm always struck by reports that try to go so far in attempting to disprove genetic differences between the races that they end up also disproving cultural differences as well. So, if neither nature nor nurture has any influence, then where are we? There is a huge amount of evidence that African-American men are more acculturated toward having more sex partners than white or Asian-American men: e.g., listen to rap songs, slang, black comedians, folk tales, black sit-coms, etc. etc. So, now, Evans, Bond, and MacRae tell us that my faith in the power of socialization is all wrong. All those social influences have no effect on behavior. I am cruelly disillusioned. Seriously, we have genetic theories and social environmentalist theories both predicting that black males should have more sex partners (at least of the non-prostitute variety). We also have a ton of academic studies empirically validating with these predictions. And now we have one lonely study disagreeing with everything else. Could it possibly that Evans, Bond, and MacRae got it wrong? Steve Sailer http://members.aol.com/steveslr