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
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STRS-HORMONE DIFFERENC INTIFIED AMONG GAY MEN
* 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. The German sexologist Magn Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was nvced that legal protectn uld only be argued if beme irrefutably clear that homosexualy was born and had a blogil substrate.