ANYBODY! HELP! Tell me if my sound quality is just so substandard that it greatly interfered with your enjoyment of this video. Was your video kinda jumpy? That semi-promised "Tutorial" in the opening moments of this vid would amount to me saying that I changed my lighting, and filming via my laptop's webcam finally happened. That "Tutorial" may or may not come to fruition. As Durkheim published "Suicide" in 1897, it seems unlikely that he gathered statistics for the last few years of the 19th Century; I'm guessing his cut off point was 1890, perhaps it was 1895. Did things really change all that much, in terms of suicide rates, during the last decade of the 19th Century? I really doubt it. In my research I have yet to find anything of import pertaining to this question. I've added this note here instead of changing the text of this video because it really seems to be a minor point, a minor point that the more I tried to add it into the video proper, the more it seemed to clog and distract. My jaw will hit the floor and a prize will be given to anyone out there who thinks Durkheim's theories about suicide basically became useless (or their value greatly diminished) because of what happened between 1890 and 1899. If links are provided to that end it would be greatly appreciated. And mind blowing. A way to look for proofs that would relate to my assertion that those in lab coats with clipboards don't know what they're talking about as far as this topic is concerned might be to study societies where we had 1) a control group society, 2) another society where there was intense pressure on all its members to reproduce AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE (this pressure would have to be a reality for its female members who were beyond menarche, for them to get pregnant and reproduce as often as possible), and 3) a society where there was intense pressure for its members to reproduce AS SELDOM AS POSSIBLE.   If Durkheim were to predict homosexual behaviors among three such groups, and if I may add the restriction that any homosexual behavior (even if it's performed by those who say they're bi-sexual) should be classified as behavior performed by homosexuals, I think Durkheim would predict homosexual behavior would still occur--but with reduced rates, maybe 3%?--in the society with intense pressure to reproduce as much as possible; in the society with intense pressure to reproduce as seldom as possible, I think Durkheim would predict an increase in homosexual behavior, maybe upwards of 20%. This is assuming that the control society would be about ten percent gay. Durkheim would then go on to assess that 3% of society is very gay, and will be gay no matter what, and, as it relates to this video, let's just say they're "born that way." But 17%, in this example, can be talked into going either way: if they're needed to reproduce, they'll be straight; if there are societal or environmental pressures that make caring for new people extremely tough, then they'll go gay.   It should be noted that in his book "Suicide" Durkheim didn't touch on this topic at all. I am borrowing his method; I am making assertions and asking questions about the genesis of sexual orientation using Durkheim's methodology. I would also like to borrow something he wrote a few times in his book, and here I'll paraquote from what appears on page 278: "...I can only deduce, because of which I may very well be wrong; if a hypothesis can't be verified in the lab, it might be wrong...". This is the data market graph on suicides between 1920 and 1969: http://datamarket.com/data/set/22vv/annual-us-suicide-rate-per-1001000-1920-1969#!ds=22vv&display;=line Here's Durkheim's book "Suicide": https://archive.org/details/suicidestudyinso00durk I mentioned episodes 10 through 20 of my series "The Woman With One Point Five Hands" in the closing moments of this video; part 10 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aerTy6wFEU&index;=10&list;=PLH1wcUrUcXw7LWwbhC4YL8vJrAgjwtvlh

• published: 19 Aug 2014
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