I just finished an interesting book called First Person Plural  "http://www.amazon.com/First-Person-Plural-Andrew-Beierle/dp/0758219709/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202147009&sr=8-1l">link

Its fiction about conjoined twins 1 gay and 1 straight...very good.  I was wondering if anyone else had read it?  If not add it to your wishlist. 

I have it on my TBR pile!

It was really great.  Fascinating story, I'm dying for someone else to read it so I can talk to them! 

Wow, that sounds very interesting. I'm going to add it to my WL too.

It does look like a good book, and thanks Heidi.

Cool - I am going to add it to my WL too! :)

What a fascinating concept!  Very interesting idea.  I was thinking that conjoined twins have to be monozygotic (identical/ from one egg).  I know this book is fiction but most of the identical sets I know are either both straight or both gay.  Anyone else have info, thoughts about that? 

I put it on my wish list, too.

Current theory is that homosexuality is genetic (it certainly seems that way in my family!) However even if two people share the same genes - as in mono-zygotic twins - there are a number of processes in fetal development where genes get turned on and off. If it turns out that homosexuality resides on a gene section that is influenced this way after the initial split think it would be possible. This happens in all females. We have two copies of the X chromosome in each cell of our bodies. since we don't need both of them all the time, one is shut down. this is done on a cellular level, so which one gets shut down varies from one cell to another. Also all genes are present in all cells, but all cells don't need to have the same parts of the genes active. A neuron does not need to have the gene for muscle contraction active, so it shuts that one off.

Anne J

Hey gang!

Yes, I'm totally replying to a thread that died almost a year ago, but I remembered it was here, so maybe someone else does too!  I just wanted to say that I recently finished First Person Plural, and it really was a great read.  It was full of some very interesting topics for discussion regarding nature vs nurture to sharing a very special body part.  Yikes.   Of course, I don't think the author takes much science into account, it's more a hypothetical fantasy book, but still compelling and creative. 

Anyway, I posted it on my bookshelf, and the system does not have a very good description of the book in it yet, so no one has snatched it up.  (it's not even categorized as LGBT yet) I'm going to put in a request to have the description updated a little, but thought I'd give you first crack at it! 

Sounds like someone already claimed it, but it sounds great.  Off to put it on my wishlist!

Yep,  sorry you missed it.  Got claimed the same day I posted the note!  Hopefully it will get posted again soon for you since it wasn't on anyone's wishlist when I posted it.