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STRS-HORMONE DIFFERENC INTIFIED AMONG GAY MEN
Increased stigma and discrimatn n affect cirdian HPA-axis functng, say rearchers. The majory of prev studi have been nducted among whe heterosexuals, wh very ltle rearch examg HPA-axis functng between different mori. Individuals who intify as both sexual and racial mori may experience creased stigma and discrimatn that n affect this HPA-axis functng. Now, rearchers have examed differenc diurnal rtisol rhythm between young, self-intified, whe gay men and black gay men." id="metasummary * gay hormonal imbalance *
1 As most scientific papers on this issue, the ntributn lacks an operatnal fn of (human) homosexualy. 2 ‘Homosexualy is characterized by same-sex ntact, eher as a genal act or as a long-term sexual/erotic stat. A homosexual person is able to fall love wh, and bee the pair-bond sexual/erotic partner of only a person of the same morphologil sex'.
Scientists have had problems to make sense of homosexual behavr.
In prent-day Thailand, some men will say: ‘I am not homosexual, I am a man', implyg that homosexual men are not men but belong somewhere the female tegory of human begs, where else a bary world of two sex? The scientific thkg about homosexualy started the middle of the neteenth century when the term was ed by Karl-Maria Kertbeny 1869: ‘In addn to the normal sexual urge men and women, Nature her sovereign mood has endowed at birth certa male and female dividuals wh the homosexual urge, th placg them a sexual bondage which renrs them physilly and psychilly pable—even wh the bt tentn—of normal erectn.