Actually I'm not sure upper class people would "switch it off." I vaguely remember something in a sociology class many years ago about levels of gay acceptance by class strata, and the most accepting were the upper and lower classes. I think the idea was that the rich don't really care what you do, because their money buys privilege. (Though this sometimes goes along with "sleep with men if you like, so long as you also marry a woman and have some babies to continue the family line." It's a rather old aristocratic notion, I think.)
Meanwhile on the lower class end, they're just more accepting of all kinds of differences because they don't have the money or power to do otherwise.
It's the middle classes who are forever fretting over their in-between position, and who get overly concerned about how they appear to others, who freak out when their kids turn out gay. So I think it's them who would first jump at a pre-natal treatment to ensure straight kids.
At least, that was a theory I read once, and I do think there's some truth in it.
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Date: 2007-03-01 12:36 am (UTC)Meanwhile on the lower class end, they're just more accepting of all kinds of differences because they don't have the money or power to do otherwise.
It's the middle classes who are forever fretting over their in-between position, and who get overly concerned about how they appear to others, who freak out when their kids turn out gay. So I think it's them who would first jump at a pre-natal treatment to ensure straight kids.
At least, that was a theory I read once, and I do think there's some truth in it.