The “gay sheep” rearch on rams om the U.S. Sheep Experiment Statn Idaho set off a firtorm of ntroversy. In an effort to unrstand what homosexualy rams (which hibs breedg), scientists sought to produce artificially same-sex preference behavr male sheep. If they uld figure out how to make sheep gay, perhaps they uld figure out how to make them straight.
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
- GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
- FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?
- OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY
HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
Gay rams show distct bra differenc - a ntroversial study of gay men found almost intil distctns * gay sheep research *
A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference. But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal.
The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men. Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc. As many as one 10 rams n be gay.
But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy. This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals. "The hope is that the study of the bra differenc will provi clu to the procs volved the velopment and regulatn of heterosexual, as well as homosexual, behavr.
GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
Sometim you e across a topic too big for the space you're wrg . This is one of those tim. The topic is rearch on gay sheep and what ... * gay sheep research *
The rults lend crence to prev studi humans that scribed anatomil differenc between the bras of heterosexual men and homosexual men, as well as sexually unique versns of the same clter of bra cells mal and femal. Science told: hands off gay sheep. Apparently Profsor Charl Roselli is nductg gome experiments on sheep the name of eraditg homosexualy.
"By varyg the hormone levels, " ntu, "maly by jectg hormon to the bra, they have had 'nsirable succs' alterg the rams' sexualy, wh some prevly gay animals beg attracted to ew. The only siar work pleted and published by them was about tryg to make "straight" animals "gay" (they avoid those terms) and any se, that experiment was negative: failed to achieve this aim.
FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * gay sheep research *
" most bizarre is the suggtn that the rearch was somehow ultimately about makg gay people straight. The assertn is at the top of the article: "Scientists are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of 'gay' sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans.
OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY
* gay sheep research *
Even if you uld tervene to make a gay human straight, you might reasonably expect this to make any hered tenncy towards homosexualy more prevalent, not all the misrmatn and misunrstandgs this ST piece appeared first a Peta (People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals) mpaign. The topic is rearch on gay sheep and what might mean for gay people.
Gay sheep are more than joke material. The sheep rearchers—Charl Roselli of Oregon Health and Science Universy and Fred Stormshak of Oregon State Universy—are vtigatg blogil factors homosexualy.
People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals acc them of tryg to “cure” homosexualy.