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BRA RPONS DIFFER GAY, STRAIGHT MEN
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. His rearch showed that the glands secrete hormon to the bloodstream that fluence not only the animals' physil velopment but also their sexual behavr, rponsible for the ‘sexualizatn' of the bra as male or rearch tools bmedice improved, the prciple guidg bmedil rearch of homosexualy remaed fahful to this ncept attemptg to intify female blogil tras male homosexuals and male blogil tras female homosexuals. First, multiple sexually differentiated behavral, physlogil, or even morphologil tras are signifintly different men and women, and homosexual and heterosexual populatns (is the latter te?
) Bee some of the tras are anized by prenatal steroids, cludg ttosterone, homosexual subjects were, on average, exposed to atypil endocre ndns durg velopment (atypil for their geic/gonadal/genal sex; female-type endocre ndns male homosexuals and male-type endocre ndns female homosexuals). The prciple guidg bmedil rearch of homosexualy has tradnally been to attribute female blogil tras to male homosexuals and male blogil tras to female homosexuals. There has been not much systematic rearch whether the sexualy of homosexual men bears a close remblance to the sexualy of women all s aspects, but I doubt .