What are your opinions on the studies relating the amount of maternal stress during pregnancy to homosexuality in their children -- especially male homosexuality?
2007-03-25 11:05:22 · 10 answers · asked by Marissa: Worker of Iniquity 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
http://www.primal-page.com/homorg.htm
Ignore the LSD studies part. LOL I don't really buy it either, but I don't know that much about it. Just wanting to get other peoples' points of view.
2007-03-25 11:13:59 · update #1
Deep regressive psychotherapies aim to uncover repressed experience. But they frequently misunderstand psychoanalytic theory about repression: it is not memories of actual past events that get repressed, but current affect and emotion.
Unfortunately, therapies such as "Primal" therapy have contributed to people developing false memories, and their ideas about maternal stress "causing" homosexuality lack any objective verification.
The is, however, a prenatal mechanism involved in a male subsequently becoming homo rather than heterosexual: birth order studies have confirmed this. But this is a long way from objectively confirming "maternal stress" interpreted from a regressing client as causative.
2007-03-25 11:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the articles relies heavily on regressive and primal therapies, I would not place that much weight on these theories.
Virtually all studies on homosexuality causation have shown a biological factor, and although it is possible for a mother's stress to influence hormonal levels in a developing fetus, there have been many more studies linking these biological causes to genetics. These genetic factors are not linked to a single gene but to a wider spectrum of genetic makeup causing a certain sexual orientation.
2007-03-25 18:26:53 · answer #2 · answered by χριστοφορος ▽ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Frank Lake, "The focus for psychopathology is....the first trimester of intrauterine life." If this is so, and one possible result is homosexuality of the unborn child, then the conclusion follows that homosexuality is a psychopathology. I can accept that elevated levels of maternal stress can trigger harmful hormonal imbalances in the fetal brain, causing many different psychopathologies - including homosexuality.
2007-03-25 18:35:12 · answer #3 · answered by BaBa Lin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm familiar with the study, but to be honest it seems like a logshot at something humanity wishes to explain but cant.
2007-03-25 18:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't consider it a valid "theory". At least, I haven't seen enough study and evidence to prove that there's anything valid about it.
2007-03-25 18:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh man, that's depressing. To imagine me causing stress in the womb. That's all I have to say about that.
2007-03-25 18:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of it. Do you have a website or something to back it up to show us? I could answer more completely with a more comprhensive question.
2007-03-25 18:10:02 · answer #7 · answered by ramblin' robert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bullocks.
No stress whatsoever during my pregnancy, and my wonderful son is gay.
B
2007-03-25 18:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by beatriceorme 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a theory for you. I think it's because we all eat to much chicken .What does gay men like that chickens have? [ A HARD PECKER]
2007-03-25 18:24:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel it's someone's desperate straw grasping.
2007-03-25 18:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by DEATH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋