Is being gay biological or psychological
UNAIR NEWS – Deddy Corbuzier’s podcast a few weeks ago went viral as it featured a gay couple, Ragil and Fred. In the podcast, Ragil and Fred told Deddy how the two met and got married after discovering their accurate selves. The psychological factor is inseparable from the self-discovery process in every couple. Then, what causes someone becomes gay? Does the self-discovery process contain anything to accomplish with a person’s psychological factors?
Responding to the question, UNAIR psychology lecturer Atika Dian Ariana S Psi MSc mutual her views on the causes of homosexuality. Speaking about LGBT, one thing to understand is the difference between sexual identity and sexual orientation. Sexual identity is a part of how one thinks of oneself in terms of sexual role (male or female).
Responding to the ask, UNAIR psychology lecturer Atika Dian Ariana S Psi MSc shared her views on the causes of homosexuality. Speaking about LGBT, one thing to realize is the difference between sexual individuality and sexual orientation. Sexual identity is a part of how one thinks of oneself in terms of sexual role (male or female).
“If we desire to be slightly open, sexual orientation has many forms. General
Across cultures, 2% to 10% of people report having same-sex relations. In the U.S., 1% to 2.2% of women and men, respectively, identify as male lover. Despite these numbers, many people still consider gay behavior to be an anomalous choice. However, biologists have documented homosexual deed in more than 450 species, arguing that gay behavior is not an unnatural choice, and may in fact play a vital role within populations.
In a 2019 issue of Science magazine, geneticist Andrea Ganna at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues, described the largest survey to date for genes paired with same-sex behavior. By analyzing the DNA of nearly half a million people from the U.S. and the U.K., they concluded that genes account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex action.
Numerous studies have established that sex is not just male or female. Rather, it is a continuum that emerges from a person’s genetic makeup. Nonetheless, misconceptions persist that same-sex attraction is a choice that warrants condemnation or conversion, and leads to discrimination and persecution.
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Nature vs. Nurture: The Biology of Sexuality
MED prof speaks tonight on whether sexual orientation has genetic basis
Homosexuality was considered a mental illness when Richard Pillard was in medical school. It was the 1950s and the School of Medicine professor of psychiatry was at the University of Rochester. At the time, the American Psychological Association still listed homosexuality as a disorder and psychologists and psychiatrists were trained on ways to deal with it.
The first psychological test undertaken to determine whether there was a physiological explanation for homosexuality was in 1957. With a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Karen Hooker studied the partnership between homosexuality and psychological development and illness. Hooker studied both homosexuals and heterosexuals—matched for age, intelligence, and learning process level. The subjects were then given three psychological tests: the Rorschach, the Thematic Apperception Evaluate (TAT), and the Make-a-Picture-Story Test (MAPS). Hooker found no major differences in the answers given by the two groups. Because of the similar scores, she concluded that sexuality is not based on environmental factors.
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Not long ago, I had a conversation with a Methodist minister who was lamenting the recent schism in the once “United" Methodist Church. He explained that this split had come about over a disagreement about whether to accept LGBTQ persons into their congregations.
“So, is there really a gay gene?” he asked.
“Well, yes, sort of,” I replied. “But it’s complicated.”
As University of Toronto (Canada) psychologist Doug VanderLaan and his colleagues explain in an article they recently published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, science now clearly shows that people are born with their sexual orientation. Many people assume that if a trait is something we're “born with,” it must be genetic—but in evidence, it’s not that simple.
On the one hand, traits can be determined by multiple genes, such that a single trait may have any number of genetic causes. On the other hand, the way we come out of the womb is determined as much by conditions inside the womb as they are by our genes. That is, the presence of particular hormones during prenatal development, as well as the reactions of our mother’s immune system, can have a big influence in shaping who we are.
Sex, Sexual Orientatio The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality
These figures may not be high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this group, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog post, external that for much of up-to-date history gay people haven't been living openly lgbtq+ lives. Compelled by population to enter marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.
How many same-sex attracted people have children also depends on how you define being "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa move on to get married and have children.
"The category of same-sex sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you go to India, you'll find that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't mean there's no homosexuality there."
Similarly in the West, there is evidence that many people go through a phase of homosexual activity. In the 1940s, US sex researcher Alfred K
The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality
These figures may not be high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this group, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog post, external that for much of up-to-date history gay people haven't been living openly lgbtq+ lives. Compelled by population to enter marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.
How many same-sex attracted people have children also depends on how you define being "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa move on to get married and have children.
"The category of same-sex sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you go to India, you'll find that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't mean there's no homosexuality there."
Similarly in the West, there is evidence that many people go through a phase of homosexual activity. In the 1940s, US sex researcher Alfred K