Can Rats Be Gay

Contents:

• CAN RATS BE GAY
• MAKG GAY RATS
• WHY YOU’RE GAY: A NEW STUDY SHOWS WHY BOY RATS LIKE OTHER BOY RATS
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• IS MY PET GAY?

CAN RATS BE GAY

In this article, we will explore the evince for and agast the ia that rats n be gay and what this means for our unrstandg of animal Science of Rat SexualyRats, like many other animals, have plex and nuanced sexual behavrs that are not fully unrstood.

Rearchers have studied rat sexualy for many years, and have intified several different patterns of sexual behavr, cludg heterosexual and homosexual behavrs. The exact reasons why this behavr occurs are not fully unrstood, but some rearchers believe that may be related to chang hormone levels or social factors, such as overcrowdg or the absence of a suable Gay Behavr Natural Rats? Some rearchers believe that homosexual behavr rats is a natural and normal part of their sexual repertoire, while others believe that may be a rult of environmental or hormonal vs.

Some rearchers believe that is a rult of geic or blogil factors, while others believe that may be a rult of environmental factors, such as overcrowdg or the prence of certa Role of HormonHormon also play a role rat sexualy, and some rearchers believe that chang hormone levels may be rponsible for the exprsn of gay behavr rats. For example, some studi have found that chang ttosterone levels male rats n lead to an crease homosexual Do This Mean for Our Unrstandg of Animal Sexualy?

MAKG GAY RATS

While the exact reasons why rats engage homosexual behavr are not fully unrstood, is clear that this behavr is a plex and nuanced aspect of their sexual behavr that is fluenced by a batn of geic, hormonal, and environmental factors. Rearchers Tryg to Prove Orientatn is HormonalThe science of how and why someone be gay has been studied for a long time now, but more and more rearch is suggtg that nature and not nurture plays a large role termg who will be gay. The problem wh the theory is that orr to tt out, some expectg mother would need to give her nsent to have a rearcher ject her female baby wh ttosterone the last trimter and then study her throughout the urse of her life to terme if she behav a "gay" manner.

Whout the relatnships, the propagatn of the bottlenose speci would not be is to say, the homosexual relatnships lay the groundwork for the bottlenose dolphs’ survival. Any dividual that has jt enjoyed a meal is attractive to a male bedbug; do not matter whether they are female or rce homosexual matgs male bedbugs give off alarm pheromon. Acrdg to Bce Bagemihi, thor of Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy (1999), the moral bias agast same-sex human relatnships fluenced the study of animal behavr.

Wh chang social norms me the eedom to study all typ of animal of Animal speci wh evince of homosexualy their is jt a small portn of the 450 speci long list of animals that show homosexual behavrs. An troductn to a muddled and sometim ntent world of scientific rearch—one whose fdgs, now as tentative as they are suggtive, may someday shed light on the sexual orientatn of everyoneThe issue of homosexualy has arrived at the foreont of Ameri's polil nscns. It has seen referenda opposg gay rights reach the ballot two stat and bee enacted one of them—Colorado, where lol ordanc banng discrimatn agast homosexuals were repealed.

WHY YOU’RE GAY: A NEW STUDY SHOWS WHY BOY RATS LIKE OTHER BOY RATS

The issue of homosexualy has always been volatile, and is sure to ntue to flame polil is timely and appropriate that at this juncture a scientific disciple, blogy, has begun to ask the fundamental qutn What is homosexualy? Homosexuals have long mataed that sexual orientatn, far om beg a personal choice or liftyle (as is often lled), is somethg neher chosen nor changeable; heterosexuals who have ma their peace wh homosexuals have often done so by acceptg that premise. Rearchers n look back on two histori: a century-long, highly problematic psychologil vtigatn of homosexualy, and a short but extremely plex history of blogil rearch that started out as an examatn of ovulatn rats.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Blogists embarked upon rearch to homosexualy rponse to an tellectual vacuum created by the failure of other scienc to solve the riddle of sexual orientatn. As Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard, the thors of one of the most important geic quiri to homosexualy, have observed, s of psychiatric rearch to possible environmental of homosexualy—that is to say, social and cultural —show "small effect size and are ally ambiguo. David Halper pots out One Hundred Years of Homosexualy that the term self first appeared German (Homosexualät) a pamphlet published Leipzig 1869; entered the English language two s later.

By the 1940s homosexualy was discsed as an aspect of psychopathic, paranoid, and schizoid personaly fed homosexualy as a pathology, psychiatrists and other doctors ma bold to "treat" . Jam Harrison, a psychologist who produced the 1992 documentary film Changg Our Mds, not that the medil profsn viewed homosexualy wh such abhorrence that virtually any proposed treatment seemed fensible. None of the uld be shown to change the sexual orientatn of the people those who looked to the matter was the sex rearcher Aled Ksey, whose 1948 report “Sexual Behavr the Human Male” showed homosexualy to be surprisgly mon across l of fay, class, and tnal and geographic background.

IS MY PET GAY?

In his book Beg Homosexual, the psychoanalyst Richard Isay wr, Ksey and his -workers for many years attempted to fd patients who had been nverted om homosexualy to heterosexualy durg therapy, and were surprised that they uld not fd one whose sexual orientatn had been changed.

When they terviewed persons who claimed they had been homosexuals but were now functng heterosexually, they found that all the men were simply supprsg homosexual behavr... "Psychiatry not only nsistently failed to show that homosexualy was a preference, a malleable thg, sceptible to reversal; also nsistently failed to show that homosexualy was a pathology. She chose a group of thirty gay men as the objects of her rearch and thirty straight men as ntrols; none of the sixty had ever sought or unrgone psychiatric treatment.

Shneidman remembers, "I said to Evelyn, 'Gee, I wish I uld say that I see all now, that this is the profile of a person wh a homosexual orientatn, but I n't see at all. In 1973 the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om s official Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, signifyg the end of homosexualy's official stat as a disease. Today's psychiatrists and psychologists, wh very few exceptns, do not try to change sexual orientatn, and those aspirg to work the fields of psychiatry and psychology are now traed not to regard homosexualy as a homosexualy moved om the realm of psychiatric pathology to the realm of normal variants on human sexual behavr, rearch efforts took a new turn.