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286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is It a Social Contagion or Is It a Political Problem?

Is it really a social contagion, or is it that a society's becoming much more open and liberal, and therefore these people are now able to come out? The real number really is not one tenth of one %, but more like three per cent. I actually think that societies are becoming more impersonal, more anonymous as they grow larger. Maybe one adaptation to that is becoming more bisexual, becoming more fluid sexually. Sexuality is a potent way to establish a bond. And n meaningful a. So i'm open to that possibility.

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