You might have read the tle of this particular blog post and thought to yourself, how exactly do the notn of the social nstctn of sexualy f to a blog about scientific rearch on the gay gene? I thk is important to explore the reasons why sexualy is a social nstct bee then we…
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More and more people believe that gay sexualy is heredary - but how do this ia f wh natural selectn? * is gay a social construct *
The evolutn of a social nstctn: the se of male homosexualy. Male homosexualy has been viewed by evolutnary psychologists as a Darwian paradox, and by other social scientists as a social nstctn. Male homosexualy as we now know is an 18th-century ventn, but nonexclive same-sex sexual behavr has a long evolutnary history.
This hypothis mak sense of some odd fdgs about male homosexualy and helps to expla the rise exclive male homosexualy the 18th century.
This chapter foc on the nstctn of gay inty. First, sexual inty is fed and the emergence of gay inty is discsed. Two signifint theori of inty—social inty theory and inty procs theory—om social psychology are... * is gay a social construct *
Cultural rpons to same-sex sexualy led to the spread of exclive homosexual behavr and to the creatn of a homosexual inty. Unrstandg male homosexualy as an evolutnary social nstctn n help move beyond the tradnally polarized bate between evolutnary psychologists and social nstctnists. The alliance theory of homosexual behavr and the perceptn of social stat and reproductive opportuni.
The argument is this: gay sex alone n’t produce children, and for tras to evolve, they have to be passed onto children, who get some form of petive advantage om them. From this perspective, some argue homosexualy should not have evolved. In a paper published yterday by myself and De Universy profsor Brian Hare, we propose human sexualy (cludg homosexualy) evolved as an oute of the evolutn of creased sociabily humans.
This is our “socsexual hypothis” for the evolutn of gay sex and attractn. In our clost primate relative, the bonobo, straight and gay sex have val rol play, social transactns, barter of food, same-sex social bondg and bondg between matg pairs. 'Gay gene' search reveals not one but many – and no way to predict sexualy.
* is gay a social construct *
This rults an crease of sex general, greater diversy the ntexts of sex, and an crease gay sex. Gay sex and attractn may have evolved bee dividuals wh a gree of same-sex attractn benefed om greater social mobily, tegratn and stronger same-sex social bonds.
This may sound untertuive, given gay people are socially margalised, ostracised and even crimalised many societi. Many studi sce the pneerg rearch of Aled Ksey and lleagu have emphasised that sexual mori occur across all cultur, and the levels of gay and bisexual people populatns have been que stable over time. Our hypothis predicts that bisexualy and people who intify as “mostly straight” should be more mon than people who intify as exclively gay, and this is the se.
Th, variatn is expected, and dividuals fall along a spectm rangg om a majory who are straight, to a mory who intify as gay. Our hypothis for the evolutn of homosexualy would predict this kd of variatn human sexualy, and n help expla why is generally stable across cultur. Siarly, we thk askg how gay sex and attractn evolved is the wrong qutn.