i want to no why they are gay
2006-12-23 15:24:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
There is no "why," any more than there is a "why" the rest of us are heterosexual.
Here's an idea: Live and let live. As you get older, you're going to figure out there are more important questions in the world. Don't worry about silly stuff like this.
2006-12-23 18:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by weary0918 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are several theories as to why a person is gay. The most prominent I have read is a work by Simon Le Vay. He determined - through autopsy - that gay men and straight men have one single difference: the size of their hypothalamus (a gland in the middle of your brain and well known to be the source of sexual stimulation in human beings). With gay men it is small and fluffy were as in straight men, it is solid and large. He repeated this experiment with lesbian and straight women and found the reverse. Straight women had small/fluffy gland were as lesbian has large/denser gland.
So hypothalamus size wise:
Gay men = Straight women
Lesbian women = Straight men
Following years of studies, he determined that this gland is developed before birth. When he examined pregnant mothers during period of pregnancy he found that this gland gets developed during the 6th month of pregnancy. If the mother body thinks she has a daughter, she would give Oestrogen (female hormone). If she thinks she has male son, she would give Testosterone (male hormone). For some un-explained reason, the mother would give the wrong hormone. Depending on how long this hormone is given, the child may come up as Bisexual, straight acting gay guy, camp gay guy, or in extreme cases transsexual (a person who believes he is in the wrong body!).
Research into how to determine why this switch happens has been blocked. From one side, the church and religious groups would not accept it (because this would mean centuries of prosecuting gay/lesbians was a crime but more importantly it is a serious shake to their belief). From the other side, gay groups have pressured government and other organisation not to proceed in such research because this would mean there is a way to eliminate gays from existence! Hosptial scans can determine if a mother has son/daugther and a simple blood test can deterimine what hormone the mother is giving. The latest work as done by an Italian scientist two years ago who tried to determine if the mother had a genetic differences that results in this switch and managed to find some correlation in that most mothers with gay/lesbian children had actually gay/lesbian brothers and sisters!
See it is much more complicated that this but I hope I explained to you in best possible way. And if you are wandering how a bisexual man/woman hypothalamus would look, well it is medium size/denisty, they got mix of hormones and thus they would like both!
2006-12-25 08:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by Fadi S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well my Theory is long but I will make it short-Testosterone. It changes the brain before birth. If a man is genetically male and was exposed to very little T in the womb his brain wont be masculinized even though later in life he will have his normal t range his brain was born effeminate. If a women was born genetically female and exposed to higher levels of T she could become lesbian but still be female and normal except a masculine brain. There are in betweens effeminate males in the brain aspect can still be straight but not have Bruce Willis character traits. Its all in between really men an women really do have different brains we all start out as a default of effeminate Brains Testosterone changes our brains male or female before birth men as adults will always have more but the brain cant be changed after birth so its permanent. Just a guess with some facts thrown in take it or leave it.
2006-12-27 05:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you straight? Yeah, you like certain members of the opposite gender, but _why_? My guess is, you just do, and you don't control it. Same for gay or bi people.
Studies suggest that gay people are born gay. The exact mechanism that makes someone gay, straight, bi, or whatever is not known. No one really knows why it happens, evolutionarily. It does happen in the animal kingdom as well as with people.
2006-12-24 15:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by random6x7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 20 years, the magazine Psychology Today, published the results of a longitudinal study. It did not address "why", but it eliminated a lot of myths such as, domineering mother, playing with dolls as a child, aversion to football as a child, family with a lot of females, abusive father, and so on.
The boys were followed for 20 years and the results showed that the above myths were not true at all. As many boys who liked football became gay as the boys who played with dolls. The same result was true for the other myths.
I was so revlieved because my son loved his Cabbage Patch doll!
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-24 09:23:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go to " homosexual " at wikipedia for a start on this " why " of being gay.
2006-12-24 01:15:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
CUZ GOD MADE THEM THAT WAY!YOU CAN'T DO ANYHTING ABT IT....WE R ALL DIFFERENT IN A WAY OR ANOTHER...i mean imagine if everybody was straight...life wouldnt be so interesting....
2006-12-25 20:42:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth defect.
2006-12-24 02:18:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
They like to take sh.its, but their options are either be gay, or eat an ungodly amount of food.
2006-12-24 00:07:18 · answer #9 · answered by knucklesandwich 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋
altered mind and emotion due to diff sex experience.even they want to escape they cannot cause their friends keep on influencing them.
2006-12-24 10:13:50 · answer #10 · answered by aqruipnos888 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋