Re: Homosexuality


"gareth" <garethcn2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Sorry if I repeat anything mentioned above, I haven't read it all. Here
> is what I think:
> 1. It's impossible for a single gene to evolve which stops its "owner"
> breeding as that gene would never spread (there are some exceptions).
> 2. It is unlikely that homosexuality has "evolved" to curb rising
> populations as the evidence shows that homosexuals have been around for
> as long as we have recorded history (e.g. ancient Rome) and
> overpopulation is a relatively recent thing.
> 3. Clearly the causes must be massively complex and will involve many
> environmental factors.
> 4. However, given gays have been present in all known societies with
> many different cultures / upbringings it is also likely that there's an
> genetic factor- although what that is is still up for grabs (there is
> no way a single gay gene as you might have seen the press). Perhaps
> there's a form of heterozygous advantage where having a number of genes
> makes it very likely you will be gay and therefore not have kids but
> having slightly less gives you a better affinity to the opposite sex
> and therefore you are more likely to have kids. Thus those genes
> prevail (like sickle cell anaemia) - it's just a thought and not one
> that I have seen any evidence for however.
>
A voluminous amount of work is being done by way of iMRI and other
brain imaging techniques, in conjunction with variations in stimulus. And
some answers may be forthcoming from that.

My guess is that somewhere, this very moment, a study is underway in which
iMRI imaging records what parts of subjects' brains light up when scenarios
such as the following are set-up:
a. When a hot-looking female enters the room where a subject
hetero-oriented male is;
b. When a hot-looking male enters the room where a subject hetero-oriented
female is;
c. When a hot-looking female enters the room where a subject homo-oriented
female is;
d. When a hot-looking male enters the room where a subject homo-oriented
male is;
e. etc.

Since psychological and psychiatric studies have been non-conclusive, maybe
these kinds of brain activity differences might show some difference in hard
wiring... maybe.

Maybe our understanding of hermophroditism needs to be expanded to include
the largest of the
sex organs: the brain, and we should not limit it only to the physiology
and neurology of the genitals and associated glands.

Somewhere... somehow... sooner or later... something is bound to turn up
that will inform our efforts to
answer all such questions as:

1. If the evolvement of sex was to give sexual species a yen to
reproduce, then why would it give
some individuals a yen to waste time and energy on non-reproducing acts;

2. If homosexual relationships do not lead to reproduction, and
homosexuality is genetically caused,
then how do enough homosexual genes get passed along to maintain the
homosexual yen;

3. If homosexuality is not genetically caused, and is no psychologically
caused, then what causes it?

Some other questions that need to be informed -- by SOME method -- are:

4. Are pedophilia and homosexuality two independent characteristics, two
related characteristics, or
two expressions of a single characteristic;

5. Are there correlations between homosexuality in children and exposures
of mother or father prior to or at time of fertilization to certain toxins,
diseases, or what have you... or exposure to mother during gestation to
particular drugs, temperatures, chemicals, trauma, stress, diet, hormonal
balances... etc.;

6. What correlations exist between homosexual orientation and other
atypical behavior orientations.






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