Biology of sexual orientation

Egotistical Atheist wrote

If you start taking estrogens you might as well start being flamboyant and join MENSA :cheers:

No kiddin'! MENSA is a bunch of fops, though. I'll keep my gray cells for my own use. Everybody I know that joined MENSA ended up acting like lily (prancing around saying/acting, "I'm so smart!"). Fucking annoying. Anyway, I got my brains the easy way- cut them out of a cadaver.

[Sternwallow]

Rat Bastard wrote

No kiddin'! MENSA is a bunch of fops, though. I'll keep my gray cells for my own use. Everybody I know that joined MENSA ended up acting like lily (prancing around saying/acting, "I'm so smart!"). Fucking annoying. Anyway, I got my brains the easy way- cut them out of a cadaver.

Traded up, eh?

Sternwallow wrote

Traded up, eh?

:lol: Just a little after-ghoul humor. I had the laziest possible brain mass acquisistion method one can use- I was born, and grew up- despite all my experimentation with various explosives, incendiaries and fast cars and motorcycles.

Egotistical Atheist wrote

You Sir sound like you need to get a little bit of education.

I am a 49 year old homosexual guy and I was never raped or molested sexually by any adult. I had a wonderful family, loving and caring. My siblings are a brother and a sister. Both are heterosexual, however my sisters first child who is now 18 has come out as gay.

Obviously you couldnt understand anything HomoCyclist posted because your education does not allow you to do it. Read more. Think more. Educate yourself please.

God. I fucking HATE when people take things personally when they aren't even about them. At which point in my post did I say an unhappy childhood was related to homosexuality? I might have expressed myself rather unclearly (sorry 'bout that) - I was trying to explain that there might not be just one cause for homosexuality, but multiple - and what's more, multiple causes that vary from person to person. Ex gratia (as a bad example), a female is molested by her father and thus develops a subconscious (or otherwise) hatred or disgust for males and is sexually turned to homophilia (for that reason only or including other accumulated reasons). Another female could just find herself being homosexual without any external "stimuli".

I think that sexuality is mostly a social construct, not to the extreme like Cal postulates, but close. Take for example Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire where most males had younger males as sexual partners. I think we are born with the capacity to possess any sort of orientation, with males being a bit closer to heterophilia than females (though I am not too sure about that) - take for example the fact that females can usually walk hand-in-hand, or hug each other, or even kiss each other without it being deemed awkward, wereas if males did they same thing, they'd be suspected gay. To prove this one could go around bars asking heterosexual people of both genders if they would have sex with their own gender, for money or for free. I am quite certain that more females than males would answer yes to that question.

my anecdotal sense of it is that more females are at least latently bisexual, if not actually.

Look, Gnosital is on the same track as I :)

Am I getting through to you? Please don't be offended. Sometimes I get lost in my words and forget crucial parts needed for my post to be coherent. Just ask for clarification and I shall be of assistance.

fucking bumping for justice

[Gnosital]

skribb wrote

fucking bumping for justice

Nice thread to bump! ;)

I've been out of touch lately, too damn much work going on and not nearly enough fun.

Fuckingay. *

So who knew that it's estrogens and NOT androgens that masculinize the brain during gestation? Hmm??



* sorry, lapsed intuh joizee-speak fer a minnit deh.

[Philboid Studge]

Hey gnosty, this thread is so gay!

We need to get beyond the simplified labels of 'gay/straight/bi/unsure' in order to adequately describe the full spectrum of precisely Where We'd Like to Wiggle Our Naughty Bits.

I suggest we adopt a scale derived from popular culture, where a celebrity or other personage is associated with a flavor of sexuality, or absence thereof. The scale could begin with someone utterly divested of any sexy time whatsoever, an Absolute Zero if you will. Such a lump would be a 'Wilford Brimley', say. On the Absolutely Fabulous end you have your Nathan Lanes, Roddy McDowells, k.d. langs, and so forth.

Meanwhile, we need a term to describe those sad cases in which teh gay didn't quite stick.

Wow! I just worked my way through all 6 pages of this thread. Interesting, if a bit challenging to wrap my mind around some of the more technical stuff. Alas, most of my technical expertise is in the electrical/mechanical engineering fields, and my biology/biochemistry/genetics is almost 2 decades out of date...

[Gnosital]

ForsakenOne wrote

Wow! I just worked my way through all 6 pages of this thread. Interesting, if a bit challenging to wrap my mind around some of the more technical stuff. Alas, most of my technical expertise is in the electrical/mechanical engineering fields, and my biology/biochemistry/genetics is almost 2 decades out of date...

Well, my biology is reasonably up to date, but my electrical/mechanical engineering expertise never did exist!

I have more stuff I want to add here, but my damn real life keeps draining my internet fun time!

[Gnosital]

Philboid Studge wrote

Hey gnosty, this thread is so gay!

Yeah, it sort of is, but the brain processes that make a brain prone to homosexual attraction are the same kinds of things that happen to make a brain heterosexual. It's just a matter of timing and the original genotype. Lots of people say "well we don't know HOW a brain turns gay" but that's the same thing as saying we don't know how a brain turns straight.

Philboid Studge wrote

We need to get beyond the simplified labels of 'gay/straight/bi/unsure' in order to adequately describe the full spectrum of precisely Where We'd Like to Wiggle Our Naughty Bits.

I suggest we adopt a scale derived from popular culture, where a celebrity or other personage is associated with a flavor of sexuality, or absence thereof. The scale could begin with someone utterly divested of any sexy time whatsoever, an Absolute Zero if you will. Such a lump would be a 'Wilford Brimley', say. On the Absolutely Fabulous end you have your Nathan Lanes, Roddy McDowells, k.d. langs, and so forth.

Aw, this guy's not so bad! He's kind of cute. Like a really scraggly, filthy, teddy bear.


But what's so AbFab about this guy??

Philboid Studge wrote

Meanwhile, we need a term to describe those sad cases in which teh gay didn't quite stick.

Yeah, those bastards who try to "cure" gays ought to be shot into space without their short bus jeebus helmets.

[Gnosital]

More on gayness:

William Saletan for Slate wrote

Norway is funding the world's first museum exhibit on gay animals. Examples: beetles, parrots, penguins, and swans. "One photograph shows two giant erect penises flailing above the water as two male right whales rub together. Another shows a male giraffe mounting another for sex." Previously, a zoo in Holland featured gay animal couples. Exhibit organizers' view: "Homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature." Right-wing Christian view: The organizers should "burn in hell." Cynical view: Maybe homophobia is natural, too.

Same link, further down and NOT gayness:

Slate wrote

Women dress more attractively when they're ovulating. Thirty college students were photographed and urine-tested twice during a month. Without their knowledge, the tests were used to determine on which days they were ovulating, and the photos, with faces hidden, were used by 42 male and female judges to decide, "In what photo is the person trying to look more attractive?" Without knowing which was which, the judges picked outfits worn on ovulating days over those worn on non-ovulating days 60 percent of the time. In previous studies, women flirted more often while ovulating. Researchers' spin: Your clothes say you can tell when women are ovulating. Skeptics' view: Two-and-a-half million unintended U.S. pregnancies a year say you can't.

And again:

Slate wrote

Women become sexually aroused almost as quickly as men. Thermal cameras indicate that while watching sex films, women took 12 minutes to reach "peak arousal," just a minute longer than men. Previous studies suggesting that women took longer than men were done "with instruments that require genital contact and manipulation." Implication: The contact hastened male arousal. Old hypothesis: Men are suckers for dirty movies. New hypothesis: Men are suckers for genital contact.

Re-bump.

[ubs]

Gnosital wrote

I get something different out of this one. Two-and-a-half million unintended U.S. pregnancies a year say you are responding.

ubs wrote

I get something different out of this one. Two-and-a-half million unintended U.S. pregnancies a year say you are responding.

Yeah, I didn't quite follow that one either.

Gnosital wrote

More on gayness:

Same link, further down and NOT gayness:

And again:

Woah! Ya think!?! But I know you already knew that!