New rearch shows the gen that make men gay appear to make their mothers and nts more reproductively succsful.
Contents:
- WHAT SOMEONE TO BE GAY OR STRAIGHT?
- SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
- WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
- WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
WHAT SOMEONE TO BE GAY OR STRAIGHT?
Theory: Lbians get om their fathers, gay men om their mothers. * what causes someone to be gay *
For example, exposg a boy to toys tradnally ma for girls, such as dolls, won’t e him to be gay. Many people say that they knew they were lbian, gay, or bisexual even before puberty. ” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other.
SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual).
WHAT SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay. How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal.
WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
Between 2 and 11 percent of human adults report experiencg some homosexual feelgs, though the figure vari wily pendg on the survey. Homosexualy exists across cultur and even throughout the animal kgdom, as the thors of a mammoth new review paper on homosexualy wre. Female Japane maqu will even pete tersexually wh mal for exclive accs to female sexual ’s what we don’t know: What, specifilly, someone to bee gay, straight, or somethg between.
Part of the explanatn is geic, but bee most intil tws of gay people are straight, heredy don’t expla “why” qutn is important bee “there is a strong rrelatn between beliefs about the origs of sexual orientatn and tolerance of non-heterosexualy, ” acrdg to the report thors, who are om seven universi spanng the globe. (When Atlantic ntributor Chandler Burr proposed his 1996 book, A Separate Creatn, that people are born gay, Southern Baptists lled to boytt Disney films and parks prott agast the publisher, Disney subsidiary Hypern.
WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
) It shouldn’t matter whether people “choose” to be gay, but polilly, do—at least for of the most nsistent environmental explanatns for homosexualy is lled the “aternal birth orr effect. Studi have found that a man whout olr brothers has about a 2 percent chance of beg gay, but one wh four olr brothers has a 6 percent chance.