Beg Gay: Nature, Nurture or Both? as 's meant to be heard, narrated by Richard A. Cohen. Disver the English Audbook at Audible. Free trial available!
Contents:
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
- BEG GAY: NATURE, NURTURE OR BOTH?
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
This statistic shows the shift Amerins' views om 1977 to 2019 as to whether people are born gay or lbian, or their sexual orientatn velops due to upbrgg and environmental factors. * gay nature or nurture *
At the time, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn still listed homosexualy as a disorr and psychologists and psychiatrists were traed on ways to treat . Wh a grant om the Natnal Instute of Mental Health, Karen Hooker studied the relatnship between homosexualy and psychologil velopment and illns.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
In 1973, based on Hooker’s fdgs, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Psychologil Disorrs and 1975, released a public statement that homosexualy was not a mental disorr.
Michael Bailey, a profsor of psychology at Northwtern Universy, nducted the early 1990s that found that homosexualy is largely blogilly termed, not environmentally fluenced. Pillard and Bailey examed intil and aternal tw brothers—as well as nonrelated brothers who had been adopted— an effort to see if there was a geic explanatn for homosexualy. They found that if one intil tw was gay, 52 percent of the time the other was also; the figure was 22 percent for aternal tws, and only 5 percent for nonrelated adopted brothers.
BEG GAY: NATURE, NURTURE OR BOTH?
Your rearch suggts that there is often a faial pattern It seems to that beg gay ns fai much more equently than you would expect by chance alone.