How does bisexuality work, if a gay mans hypothalamus is similar to a womans what about a bisexual mans hypothalamus. What about a bisexual woman? How does her hypothalumus work?
2007-08-13 12:58:26 · 12 answers · asked by teddythomas83 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Ancient Greek and Roman society considered bisexuality to be the norm, its our culture that sees it as wrong.
If being bisexual or gay was a genetic trait how can you explain why homosexual sex is 400% more likely in prison?
2007-08-20 07:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think there are plenty of genes that affect how we behave, but few that assert how we behave. Some people are born gay, but live straight. Some people are born straight, but live gay. These are the smallest minority. Most people are born straight and live straight. Many, but not most, people are born gay and live gay. Genes are like everything else - they are an influencing factor - nothing more. I suspect bisexuality is a natural choice for people who are born straight, but influenced towards homosexuality...
...or for people who are born gay and influenced towards heterosexuality.
However, no-one can really know. There are documented similarities between the brains of transsexuals and the sex they believe they should have been born, and this should not be discarded.
Stating that the formation of the hypothalamus dictates hard-wired and unavoidable sexuality strikes me as a bit of a stretch. As does assigning it all to genetic determination.
2007-08-13 17:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by Boris the Oval Banana 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I suppose this is not a gene thing. Too many people think about genes in a determinist way. Neither genes nor the hypothalamus determine, research of it just reveals opportunities through combinations. So, the reason why s.o. is bi- or homosexual is deliberately determined by its own choice in his particular social structure and is his reaction to possible hurts if he would go on living as a hetero. It is some hope of deliverance from "social headache" living a role he doesn't like. This freedom of choice should be preserved. It is a bad thing "to believe" there is a special gene to it that forces s.o. to be bisexual. Moreover, mankind is not different from nature: there are a lot of bisexual events amongst other vertebrates, flowers, insects .... There is a whole lot of steps to it, a fan-wise variety of decision making to it. It is not a clear cut transition from the one to the other situation. Day and night (or the reverse) change likewise: there is the twilight, dawn and dusk.
2007-08-13 15:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Robin frisky 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a fact that differences have been found in the hypothalamus of men and women as well as between gay and straight people. But this does not mean there's a causal relationship. You could as well say that being a straight male is caused by chest hair.
As far as we know, sexuality is determined by the expression of a number of different genes, not just one. These code for the production of hormones both in the fetal stage and afterward that govern the development of physical sexual characteristics as well as the emotional and mental aspects. It is a complex mix that can result in many different outcomes. It may be helpful to think of sexual identity as a spectrum rather than an either-or situation. As in most human characteristics, the diversity is endless.
2007-08-13 13:06:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Most likely, it is either genetic (from a combination of genes, not just one "bisexual gene"), or from an excess of the opposite sex hormones at a certain time in development.
Research has also found that bisexual individuals are most often only "turned on" by gay stimuli, not usually straight stimuli as well. This does not, however, mean that there is no such thing as "bisexual".
2007-08-13 16:37:01 · answer #5 · answered by MrDucks 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Is the the word hypothalamus and adequate way to describe bisexuality?.think again.
2007-08-13 13:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by mach 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many laymen now believe that homosexuality is part of who a person really is from the moment of conception.
The "genetic and unchangeable" theory has been actively promoted by gay activists and the popular media. Is homosexuality really an inborn and normal variant of human nature?
No. There is no evidence that shows that homosexuality is simply "genetic." And none of the research claims there is. Only the press and certain researchers do, when speaking in sound bites to the public.
2007-08-13 13:05:25 · answer #7 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It's not the hypothalamus, it's the salivathalamus.
2007-08-13 18:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not a gene but invivo the embryo gets an influx of the opposite hormone and depending on the amount it chnages the morphology of the brainn and thus this occurs
2007-08-16 06:11:17 · answer #9 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, it has nothing to do with hormones, nor genes. They are trying to prove there is a "gay" gene, but who you like, and what you like, your sexuality is all your choice. Go to msn health.
2007-08-13 13:07:46 · answer #10 · answered by chipmunkriot 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋