Have you heard that some are sayg that "father hunger" or daddy issu make sons gay? Fd out if this issue is based on myth or science." emprop="scriptn
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EXPLORG WHO IS AND WHAT MAK A GAY “DADDY”
* gay daddy issue *
Do Your Father Hunger Make You Gay? From the ffee shop to the rearch lab, people have been tryg to figure out why men are gay for years. Are people born gay or do the feelgs velop over time?
It's still a mystery, but that don't stop rearchers and laymen alike om askg if our environments are to blame, as if beg gay is an afflictn that needs to be solved like a cycle of psychologists and ex-gay therapy groups often throw the claim that gay men long for other men out of a subnsc need to nnect wh an absent or lackg father. Acrdg to theori, this "father hunger" is so strong that gay men ny their "natural" attractns and head toward the boy's room. Let me answer before I'm misquoted (aga) by anti-gay groups: Not a chance!
Real's work foc maly on male-female relatnships, but his study of straight men and father issu is key to knockg back claims that fatherls environments -- both leral and figurative -- breed gay men. "It illtrat that straight men have problems wh their fathers siar to those that gay men face. In other words, the father issu gay men face have ltle to do wh beg gay, but everythg to do wh growg up mal whout appropriate father figur.
For numero gay upl, 's the new normal. * gay daddy issue *
Unlike some gay men, I me out to him as retaliatn. I saw hetero men through the ey of my father and other gay men through the ey of myself: perpetrator vers sence, my emotnally and often physilly missg and homophobic daddy ma me not want to be gay more than to fd a boy's hand to hold.
Dpe longgs for closer relatnships wh their fathers, sex role theorist Michael Kimmel pots out that men (y, that's you, too, gay! Straight men and some closeted gay men will try to prove that they are mascule and th not gay by overpensatg and attemptg to sleep wh women -- society's ultimate proof of manhood.
What Kimmel is sentially sayg is that ias of masculy drive men to be homophobic. The straight man choos hyper-mascule behavr to reject any ia that he is gay, and gay men may sleep wh women as a rejectn of their sexualy. No wonr so many gay men ntue to rry around buckets of ternalized homophobia, which manifts as eher a blatant refal of sexualy (DL anyone!