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HOMOSEXUALITY
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“[T]he noble lover of beauty engages
in love wherever he sees excellence
and splendid natural endowment
without regard for any difference in
physiological detail.”
Erotikos (Dialogue on Love)
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Choose to be gay?
Or
Born that way?
homosexuality as a mental illness
Health professionals believed it could be cured…
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Electroshock therapy
Brain surgery
Hormone injections
Castration
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Sigmund Freud had a theory…
dominant mother
passive/indifferent father
homosexual son
Freud
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Theory
outdated!
2 things wrong with this theory…
…it doesn’t explain:
lesbians
heterosexuals in the
same situation
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Began looking to science to give
us the answers…
“The environment a child grows up in has
nothing to do with what makes most gay
men gay. Two of the most convincing
studies have proved conclusively that sexual
orientation in men has a genetic cause.”
M. Abrams
The two studies:
1st Study
• Exploration of
environmental affects
on individuals with
genital deformities
2nd Study
• Examination of twins
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1st Study
Performed by William Reiner
He studied a group of males who were born
with genital deformities and as a result surgically
constructed and raised to be female. He found that
these individuals were attracted to females despite
their upbringing, and believed that if society and
environment had a role; at least one of these manturned-woman should have been attracted to men
but there was: “no documented case of that
happening.”
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Study
Performed by Michael Baily
Examined twins and discovered the following:
Identical Twins
one gay
50% chance the
other one was gay
Fraternal Twins
one gay
20% chance the
other one was gay
-grew up in same
environment so clearly
DNA has an affect
If identical twins have the same DNA then why only
50% ?
Geneticist Sven Bocklandt believes
methylation is key.
Methyl group added to DNA,
in result: reducing gene
expression
turns off certain sections of genetic
code (often determines which genes
will turn on – one from mom or one
from dad?-)
Therefore, although both twins inherit the same DNA,
Methylation could turn off the “gay gene” in the one.
Another geneticist, Dean Hamer published a
study claiming to prove genetically that people
are born gay.
After interviewing/examining 76 pairs of gay brothers:
-he pinpointed a stretch of chromosome where the gene
that causes homosexuality resides
-inherited maternally (compared the X chromosomes to
find a shared genetic marker)
-this marker is referred to as Xq28
However,
To this date we still
haven’t found the exact base
pairs that might cause
homosexuality in males.
Some researchers say this is
partly because society
refuses to fund sex research.
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Another theory:
It happens in the womb!
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FACT: Genes involved in sexual
orientation produce receptors in
one’s brain that absorb hormones
released by the developing baby’s
testicles.
In gay men:
-receptors less sensitive (or even blocked)= lower levels of testosterone
= brain develops some female characteristics such as male attraction
More in the 21st CENTURY:
Conflicted views remain, but
homosexuality is more publicly integrated
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