Michael Re reviews Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientatn, by Simon LeVay
Contents:
- 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
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 * 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.
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 *
Many people say that they knew they were lbian, gay, or bisexual even before puberty.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY : THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
” 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
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.
GAY, STRAIGHT, AND THE REASON WHY: THE SCIENCE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BY SIMON LEVAY
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.
(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. ” Essentially, the more olr brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay.