What a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, nroscientist Simon LeVay summariz a wealth of scientific evince that pots to one pable ncln: Sexual orientatn rults primarily om an teractn between gen, sex hormon, and the cells of the velopg body and helped create this field 1991 wh a much-publicized study Science, where he reported on a difference the br
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- GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY
- GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY : THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY : THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY: THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY: THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BY SIMON LEVAY
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY
* gay straight and the reason why *
Clear, straightforward prose that is accsible to everyone who has qutns about what a person to grow up gay, straight, or bisexual. It’s not pletely known why someone might be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual. You also n’t “turn” a person 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.
LGBTQ stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng. Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual). Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY : THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
Gay, straight, and the reason why by Simon LeVay, 2017, Oxford Universy Prs edn, * gay straight and the reason why *
5% intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual. 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.
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.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY : THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
(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. ) 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.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY: THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
” Essentially, the more olr brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay. 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.
Average prevalence 2013 (Sav-Williams and Vrangalova)Acrdg to the report, Blanchard now plans to tt mothers of gay and straight men for the prence of the antibodi. If proved out, fetal birth orr uld do a lot to fill the missg explanatns for homosexualy.
But gaps will rema, such as why some firstborn sons are gay, why some intil tws of gay sons are straight, and why women are gay, to name jt a review-paper thors do le out one explanatn for homosexualy, however: That tolerance for gay people enurag more people to bee gay. “Homosexual orientatn do not crease equency wh social tolerance, although s exprsn ( behavr and open intifitn) may do so, ” they reasong—that a tolerant society somehow enurag homosexualy to flourish—has been ed to support anti-gay legislatn Uganda, Rsia, and elsewhere.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY: THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BY SIMON LEVAY
The laws do margalize and shame gay people, the thors wre. Xvii, 412 pag: 22 cmWhat a child to grow up gay or straight?
He helped create this field 1991 wh a much-publicized study Science magaze, where he reported on a difference the bra stcture between gay and straight men.
He also reports on the prevalence of homosexual behavr among wild animals, rangg om Graylag gee to the Bonobo chimpanzee. He also mak clear that the l of rearch have a lot of potential bee, far om seekg to disver "what went wrong" the liv of gay people, attemptg to velop "cur" for homosexualy, or returng to tradnal explanatns that center on parent-child relatnships, var forms of "trag, " or early sexual experienc, our morn scientists are creasgly seeg sexual variety as somethg to be valued, celebrated, and weled to societyInclus biblgraphil referenc (pag 309-392) and xWhat is sexual orientatn? -- Why we need blogy -- The outle of a theory -- Childhood -- Characteristics of gay and straight adults -- The role of sex hormon -- The role of gen -- The bra -- The body -- The olr-brother effect.