Homosexuality
Causes/Origins of Sexual Orientation
Despite popular belief, sexual orientation is based on multiple factors that can’t be controlled. By puberty, your sexual orientation is decided upon based on multiple biological factors and there is no changing it though people still try. Those who believe that sexual orientation is biologically disposed also express more accepting attitudes toward homosexual people. Homosexuality is estimated to be in 3 percent of men and 1 to 2 percent of women. Because our world is so fitted for heterosexual people, it can make being homosexual difficult because they often feel rejected by parents or harassed by peers and will lead to suicide if these two factors are severe enough. But scientists have pinned three main biological theories to what decides homosexuality which are brain differences, genetic influences, and prenatal influences. Simon LeVay studies sections of the hypothalamus and found something interesting. Straight males had a larger cell cluster than women and homosexual men. He did identify that the hypothalamus is not the sexual orientation center but an important part of the neural pathway engaged in sexual behavior. “Gay men simply don’t have the brain cells to be attracted to women.” (LeVay, The Sexual Brain). This formation of larger cell cluster is found to be produced in the early postnatal or prenatal stage. Another brain difference includes a hormone-derived sexual sent that lights up the hypothalamus. When straight women are given a whiff of a scent from a men’s sweat a spot in their hypothalamus lights up in the area for sexual arousal and vice versa with men. The same affect occurs for homosexual men and women as well but for the same-sex not the opposite. Homosexuality is proven to be somewhat influenced my genes. Homosexuality appears to run in families and identical twins are more likely than fraternal twin to share a homosexual orientation. Because sexual orientation differs in many identical twin
Despite popular belief, sexual orientation is based on multiple factors that can’t be controlled. By puberty, your sexual orientation is decided upon based on multiple biological factors and there is no changing it though people still try. Those who believe that sexual orientation is biologically disposed also express more accepting attitudes toward homosexual people. Homosexuality is estimated to be in 3 percent of men and 1 to 2 percent of women. Because our world is so fitted for heterosexual people, it can make being homosexual difficult because they often feel rejected by parents or harassed by peers and will lead to suicide if these two factors are severe enough. But scientists have pinned three main biological theories to what decides homosexuality which are brain differences, genetic influences, and prenatal influences. Simon LeVay studies sections of the hypothalamus and found something interesting. Straight males had a larger cell cluster than women and homosexual men. He did identify that the hypothalamus is not the sexual orientation center but an important part of the neural pathway engaged in sexual behavior. “Gay men simply don’t have the brain cells to be attracted to women.” (LeVay, The Sexual Brain). This formation of larger cell cluster is found to be produced in the early postnatal or prenatal stage. Another brain difference includes a hormone-derived sexual sent that lights up the hypothalamus. When straight women are given a whiff of a scent from a men’s sweat a spot in their hypothalamus lights up in the area for sexual arousal and vice versa with men. The same affect occurs for homosexual men and women as well but for the same-sex not the opposite. Homosexuality is proven to be somewhat influenced my genes. Homosexuality appears to run in families and identical twins are more likely than fraternal twin to share a homosexual orientation. Because sexual orientation differs in many identical twin