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More evidence of a biological basis for homosexuality...
BillieTheBot
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At least in gay males.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7791888
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7791888
Study: Homosexuals react to male sex hormones like women
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:19 p.m. ET May 9, 2005
WASHINGTON - The brains of homosexual men respond more like those of women when reacting to a chemical derived from the male sex hormone, new evidence of physical differences related to sexual orientation.
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The finding, published in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows differences in physiological reaction to sex hormones.
Researchers led by Ivanka Savic at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, exposed heterosexual men and women and homosexual men to chemicals derived from male and female sex hormones. These chemicals are thought to be pheromones, molecules known to trigger responses such as defense and sex in many animals.
Whether humans respond to pheromones has been the subject of debate, although in 2000 American researchers reported finding a gene that they believe directs the human pheromone receptor in the nose.
Biological basis to sexual orientation?
In the Swedish study, when sniffing a chemical from testosterone, the male hormone, portions of the brains involved in sexual activity were activated in gay men and straight women, but not in straight men, the researchers found.
When they sniffed smells like cedar or lavender, all of the subjects brains reacted only in the olfactory regions that handles smells.
The result clearly shows a biological involvement in sexual orientation, said Sandra Witelson, an expert on brain anatomy and sexual orientation at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
The research was funded by the Swedish Medical Research Council, the Karolinska Institute and the Megnus Bergvall Foundation.
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While all sorts of additional issues can influence the development of twins prior to their birth such as unequal access to nourishment, positional pressure etc, once the fertilised egg has divided, then feotal development does not neccessarily work in synch and hormonal development can be quite different.
i hate articals like that.
you are who you are. does it really matter how you got to be that way.
Yes, but with time the genetic argument, if further proof is found etc. and it becomes widely accepted, will put the wind out of the sails of the homophobes who reckon everyone has a choice in which gender they fancy and berate gay men and lesbians for acting on their natural instincts, just as straight couples do. Teagan can't help being gay any more than I can help being short and having small tits (neither of which I find particularly problematic - apart from having trouble reaching things very high up in libraries and supermarkets ).
Who, dear?
Me, dear?
GAY, dear???
How very DARE you!!!
*hugs*
you were the first person that came into my head