Blue Sailor
It’s Gay Pride Month in June and I thought I would share an interesting TED Talk video that looks at the epigenetics of homosexuality.
Most of us have already heard that being gay is biological. Sciences says it’s not a choice or a lifestyle, but just as much a part of who the person is as their eye color or what hand is their dominant one. But the theory of epigenetics tries to explain why a small number of people are born gay.
Common sense tells us that because gay people are less likely to have biological offspring of their own, this is a trait that should naturally fade away with time. But it doesn’t. We even see homosexuality in other animals, so it’s obviously not just a matter of human nature.
The epigenetic theory says that the genes that are involved in sexual orientation can be switched one way or another, and it proposes some thoughts on why nature would switch them towards homosexuality sometimes. You might be surprised at why that could happen, or at what the result tends to be in a family group.
No matter how you feel about the morality of sex and sexual orientation, this is an interesting talk. I hope everyone will watch it with an open mind.
An Test was conducted by Russian doctors in the late 1800’s, Volunteers were chosen with promise of anonymity to receive a known enzyme into their arms and observe the Reaction rate or time. 100 people, four groups of 25 each were injected. Men, women and lesbian women and gay men. The 25 women read 7 or 8. The 25 heterosexual men read 13 or 14. Astonished Doctors found that the lesbian women read a rate of 10 or 11 and so did the gay Men. Proving that there was a biological or chemical reaction differnce between gays and heterosexuals.
Interesting! I’ve never heard of this research before.
Controversial topic here.
It is! Some things put forth in the TED Talk anger people who believe homosexuality is a choice and that it’s wrong. Other things about the theory of epigenetics have offended gay people!