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Homosexuality Should Be Considered Biological |
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Many different scientific researchers are getting closer and closer every day to proving that homosexuality is biological. I, for one, am completely convinced that the facts will eventually be undeniable and I can't WAIT to hear what silly arguments the anti-gay folk of the world will come up with next after they can no longer refuse the overwhelming amount of evidence that proves them wrong.
Let's remember that the religious right also once was adamant about the fact that black people were subhuman and it was okay to treat them like animals. Of course, it didn't take much for science to prove that, in fact, black people are just as mentally capable as any other color of people. This is going to be a lot like that. Unfortunately, just as there are many people who insist on being racist anyway, these same people will cling to their intolerance of gays as well.
We already have observed that the brain structure of homosexual men DOES differ from the brain of heterosexual men. Particularly in the hypothalamus (which is a part of the brain we already know influences sex drive).
To quote LeVay's study comparing the hypothalami of deceased homosexual and heterosexuals:
"Gay and straight men may differ in the central neuronal mechanisms that regulate sexual behavior. . . . It is very likely that there are fewer neurons in INAH 3 of gay men than in straight men. To put an absurdly facile spin on it, gay men simply don’t have the brain cells to be attracted to women."
But hey, that's just science.
We've also observed that homosexuals tend more often than not to be born into larger families, to families where there are other homosexuals (on the mother's side), and where the mother is more promiscuous and/or has sex more frequently than many women who do not produce homosexual children. This offers a very logical, Darwinian explanation for how the "gay gene," which seems reproductively useless, would persist throughout history: Although in men this gene carries the small possibility of making a homosexual male, in women the gene carries a greater possibility that the woman will reproduce more frequently. So the benefits outweigh the costs, because it still aids reproduction in the end, even if a small percentage of the babies end up being gay and unable to reproduce themselves.
Psychology Today magazine had a great article about that one.
For more supporting evidence, there are also numerous twin studies of homosexuals which have found the likelihood of both twins being gay to be as much as 100 percent to as little as 66 percent (by the way, that is HUGE), suggesting that homosexuality almost definitely must have some sort of genetic component. Just as lnd2008 said, it could be compared loosely to the genetics of hair color. Just as most twins will be born with the same color of hair, most twins will be born with the same sexual orientation as well.
Of course statistical studies don't "prove" anything so, for now I guess the religious right can keep pretending that the truth isn't going to catch up to them and contradict their beliefs.
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on November 15 2008 11:24:04
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on November 15 2008 13:18:17
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on November 15 2008 14:46:12
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on November 15 2008 22:53:48
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on November 16 2008 11:50:48
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on November 16 2008 12:36:34
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on November 16 2008 18:12:37
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on November 16 2008 21:24:09
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on November 17 2008 19:51:40
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on November 17 2008 21:53:24
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Guess I will check-out the latest copy of Psychology Today for more information.