Many scientific studi suggt that people don't choose to be gay, ntrary to the claims of Republin printial hopeful Ben Carson.
Contents:
- WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
- BEG GAY NOT A CHOICE: SCIENCE CONTRADICTS BEN CARSON
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
Government should protect gay people om discrimatn bee homosexualy is an unalterable aspect of their inty. Perhaps sexual preference n be changed – and people have the right to engage gay sex and have homosexual relatnships if they choose to do so.
(The fourth optn, that gay people have no choice but to be gay, but should be punished for anyway, is morally unthkable.). A gay man is more likely than a straight man to have a (blogil) gay brother; lbians are more likely than straight women to have gay sisters. In 1993, a study published the journal Science showed that fai wh two homosexual brothers were very likely to have certa geic markers on a regn of the X chromosome known as Xq28.
BEG GAY NOT A CHOICE: SCIENCE CONTRADICTS BEN CARSON
This led to media headl about the possibily of the existence of a “gay gene” and discsns about the ethics of abortg a “gay” fet. In some societi, homosexualy is accepted, others, is owned upon but tolerated, yet others, is a ser crimal offense, possibly punishable by ath. What you have learned about homosexualy as you were growg up will affect whether you nsir engagg homosexual acts to be sirable or disgtg.
Some people might argue that if you are “geilly gay” but the thought of homosexualy nseat you, then you jt haven’t accepted the fact that you really are gay. That argument is based on the assumptn that sexual preference is purely blogil; therefore, has no place a discsn about the possible of homosexualy.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
In 1991, a study published the journal Science seemed to show that the hypothalam, which ntrols the release of sex hormon om the puary gland, gay men differs om the hypothalam straight men. The third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH3) was found to be more than twice as large heterosexual men as homosexual men. This study was cricized bee ed bra tissue obtaed at topsi, and all of the homosexual subjects the study were believed to have died of AIDS.
This study, which also ed bra tissue om topsi, did not reveal any signifint difference between the size of the INAH3 gay men and straight men.
ARE WE BORN GAY?
It did, however, show that gay men, nrons the INAH3 are packed more closely together than straight men.