There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexualy is jt plex, study nfirms | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• THE GAY SI OF NATURE

NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY

In theory, humans and other animals who are exclively attracted to others of the same sex should be unlikely to produce many blogil children, so any gen that predispose people to homosexualy would rarely be passed on to future generatns. Yet same-sex attractn is wispread humans, and rearch suggts that is partly a study of data om hundreds of thoands of people, rearchers have now intified geic patterns that uld be associated wh homosexual behavur, and showed how the might also help people to fd different-sex mat, and reproduce. The thors say their fdgs, published on 23 Augt Nature Human Behavur1, uld help to expla why gen that predispose people to homosexualy ntue to be passed down.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

Most of the participants were born durg a time when homosexualy was eher illegal or culturally taboo their untri, so many people who were attracted to others of the same sex might never have actually acted on their attractn, and uld therefore have end up the wrong group the Monk, an elogist and evolutnary blogist at Yale Universy New Haven, Connecticut, thks that the veats are so important that the paper n’t draw any real nclns about geics and sexual orientatn.

Instead, he thks the rearchers have found geic markers associated wh openns to new experienc, which uld expla the overlap between people who have had a homosexual partner and heterosexual people who have had many partners. And he adms that g a sgle homosexual experience as an ditn of sexual orientatn isn’t ial, but says that the UK Bbank didn’t provi data on attractn. In other words, homosexualy nature shouldn’t exist bee fails to meet the fundamental crern by which gen (and therefore tras) are passed on- reproductn.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

If homosexualy has persisted the populatn, ’s likely there’s some kd of benef that nfers to dividuals that n pensate for s huge st, i. In most s, homosexual behavr nfers the dividual wh benefs that outweigh s potential sts (see why we do what we do and not what we don’t do).

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Sce most dividuals that show homosexual behavr are bisexuals (holds for animals and humans), ’s been proposed that they engage homosexual behavr as a practice before they n engage heterosexual behavr.

It’s possible that a lack of heterosexual mat uld lead dividuals (pecially mal) to rort to homosexual behavur to release their sexual tratns. The same dynamic uld be at play prisons where otherwise heterosexual men engage homosexual activy bee of a lack of heterosexual outlets. ” If scientists n show that homosexualy is a geic tra, then homosexuals may have a legimate claim to beg protected as a mory class unr feral and state civil rights laws.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

Whatever the oute of scientific studi, the most important pot that we n make is that the qutn over the geic nature of homosexualy is pletely irrelevant to the bate. The most effective tactic homosexual activists employ is to wrap their allegatns a veneer of science when talkg about their sexual orientatn. Members of the public tomatilly give heavy crence to any claim that origat wh a profsnal medil anizatn or a prtig journal, and homosexual theorists know this.

The first large study that claimed that homosexuals are “born that way” was performed by Aled Ksey, and culmated his 1948 report entled Sexual Behavr the Human Male.

Simon LaVey, himself a homosexual, examed the bras of 35 male davers (16 heterosexuals and 19 homosexuals) to see if he uld fd any differenc between the groups. Addnally, three of the “heterosexual” bras had smaller no clters than the average of the “homosexual” on, and three of the “homosexual” bras had larger no clters than the average of the “heterosexual” on.

THE GAY SI OF NATURE

In other words, the bra no might be smaller bee of homosexual activy stead of g , the same way that var other parts of the bra expand or ntract wh more or ls age. In sets of intil tws, where one brother was homosexual, they found that there was a 52% chance that the other tw was homosexual as well. The ncln that the thors drew om the parisons was this: that the cince of homosexualy be higher as the geic lk between brothers be closer.

Sendly, the fact that 48% of the intil tws of homosexual brothers the study were not homosexuals themselv dit that homosexualy is largely the rult of environmental fluenc. ”5 In fact, prev rearch had shown an extremely strong rrelatn between ct and rultant homosexualy, but Bailey and Pillard dismissed the effects of ct as “signifint. Most Amerins tend have a good measure of mon sense and stctively realize that homosexualy and s associated practic are unhealthy for both dividuals and societi general.