1. Discuss the dichotomy of "nature" vs. "nurture" as a cause of sexual orientation.
Nature vs. Nurture is an ongoing debate on whether or not a person was born gay or if it was learned through experiences and upbringing. Biology, genes, and being born gay are seen as choices that oppose the possibility of change in sexual orientation. a great amount of the population believes that sexual orientation is within your genes. They can find out what causes it in the fear within many is that they will try and fix it if they find a gene. some researchers believe that they are doing this research for the gay people an attempt to further tolerance if not gay rights.
We are undoubtedly influenced by our environment we grow up in, but that does not automatically invalidate our feelings it just affects how we choose to react to them. This can be from repression of feelings from …show more content…
Which of the studies on the determiners of sexual orientation did you find most interesting and why?
I found the article in “girly brains and Macho digits” interesting because it explains the “ nature” or the DNA of an LGBT person versus a straight person. A study done in the 1990s called the medicalization of queerness by LeVay and Hamer that homosexuality was biologically determined. In 1991 they published a difference in hypothalamic structure between homosexual and heterosexual men. They now that there was a difference in cell groups in the interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus was twice as large and heterosexual men as in gay men come on the basis of an analysis of the brain tissue taken from the autopsies of 41 subjects in New York and California. The subjects consisted of 18 gay men with AIDS 1 bisexual men with AIDS 16 presumably heterosexual men comma six of whom died of aids-related deaths, and one woman with AIDS. During the study they found a difference in the X chromosome of the male which argues that a gene on the X chromosome influences male sexual
Nature vs. Nurture is an ongoing debate on whether or not a person was born gay or if it was learned through experiences and upbringing. Biology, genes, and being born gay are seen as choices that oppose the possibility of change in sexual orientation. a great amount of the population believes that sexual orientation is within your genes. They can find out what causes it in the fear within many is that they will try and fix it if they find a gene. some researchers believe that they are doing this research for the gay people an attempt to further tolerance if not gay rights.
We are undoubtedly influenced by our environment we grow up in, but that does not automatically invalidate our feelings it just affects how we choose to react to them. This can be from repression of feelings from …show more content…
Which of the studies on the determiners of sexual orientation did you find most interesting and why?
I found the article in “girly brains and Macho digits” interesting because it explains the “ nature” or the DNA of an LGBT person versus a straight person. A study done in the 1990s called the medicalization of queerness by LeVay and Hamer that homosexuality was biologically determined. In 1991 they published a difference in hypothalamic structure between homosexual and heterosexual men. They now that there was a difference in cell groups in the interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus was twice as large and heterosexual men as in gay men come on the basis of an analysis of the brain tissue taken from the autopsies of 41 subjects in New York and California. The subjects consisted of 18 gay men with AIDS 1 bisexual men with AIDS 16 presumably heterosexual men comma six of whom died of aids-related deaths, and one woman with AIDS. During the study they found a difference in the X chromosome of the male which argues that a gene on the X chromosome influences male sexual