Male Androphilia

In Kelly Servick’s article, “New support for ‘gay gene’”, she also talks about Dean Hamer’s research project in 1993. She discusses how the several experiments after it still failed to imitate the results. However, the largest independent replication effort to this day looks at 409 pairs of gay brothers. These trials finally reproduced the same results as Hamer. She quotes Hamer, “When you first find something out of the entire genome, you’re always wondering if it was just by chance,” who is now relieved to see his tests confirmed. Other scientists continue to doubt the results though, saying their evidence is weak. The study does not identify a particular gene that’s role in homosexuality can be more closely examined.
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Vasey and Doug P. VanderLaan commentate on the evolution of male androphilia in “Evolving research on the evolution of male androphilia” Androphilia is the sexual attraction and arousal to men. Many cultures express androphilia in varying ways.
Homosexuals who occupy the gender role of that which is common of their sex behave in a masculine manner and are identified as men. However, transgendered male homosexuals often think of themselves as members of a third sex. They will typically behave in highly effeminate ways and refuse to be identified as either man or women. Even though many gays do not share gender roles or identities they have many bio demographic and developmental associations. Homosexuality in itself is a paradox. It appears to have a biological component; however, homosexuals continue to endure even though they do not typically reproduce.
Archaeological evidence has evidence that homosexuality has existed for over 1,000 years. To this day, only one population of transgendered gays has been considered when testing theories about the evolution of male androphilia: the fa’fafine of Samoa. Fa’fafine are samoan biological males who act in the ways of females. The fa’fafine tend to show avuncular tendencies or a particular closeness to an uncle. Even when compared to a control group that lacked parental care they were still tested as having a better relationship. However the authors do point out that more in-depth research will be needed before proving that …show more content…
This results in an inner-conflict and the individual may feel shame in response to homosexual desires. Many gay men deem their sexual orientation more acceptable if they believe it is out of their control. Gay men who believe it is a choice experience self-blame, perceiving their sexuality as a personal failing, and as a result turn on higher levels of internalized homonegativity. A test was conducted by Daniel S. J. Costa and Ilan Dar-Nimrod assessing sexual orientation, beliefs, sexual identity uncertainty, internalized homonegativity, and psychological wellbeing outcomes. The modeling that was used was Structural equation. This modeling was used to test whether belief that being a homosexual meant you had to act a certain way is associated with psychological and homonegativity. A pattern emerged from the results. Belief that homosexuality was choice was less associated with sexual identity uncertainty. However, those who believed this showed a large correlation with internalized homonegativity. Although sexual identity uncertainty seemed to be related with individuals with poorer psychological wellbeing; no direct correlation between identity uncertainty and psychological wellbeing was