Can science explain our sexual orientation? | Experts Explain

[@ronsmith2241]

I was a Baptist Pastor and I am gay and that was medically proven during electronic shock therapy. They put me in a booth at a hospital and put a wire ring that measured temperature changes. They showed me about 1000 pictures of men and 1000 pictures of women. When my body temperature increased when I saw pictures of the men, they delivered high voltages of electricity through other wires that were attached. It was horrific. But the machine never recorded anything when I saw all those pictures of nude women. There isn't anything that can be done to influence the outcome of those tests. It proved medically I was born gay and it is absolutely fine.

[@serhatozkan7623]

Really?

[@Indlovu402]

I don't believe any of that.

[@AIexitto]

As an actual homosexual like you, I think the self diagnosis of homosexuality is inherently an issue. Especially in recent times where they have created a value system on people who are a minority on the basis of their sexual preference, a lot of people are going to pretend that they’re lesbian, gay, bisexual just because it’s trendy. It sucks because it causes the numbers of people who are gay/lesbian/bisexual to go up, making it appear as if it’s a choice when in reality these people are literally heterosexual. It’s also going to mess up any studies done because you have people who are not even homosexual in these studies being studied as if they were homosexual. The younger generation (generation z) had a self diagnosis of being somewhere in the LGBTQ at around 20%, and although I do think some of the growth is valid due to public acceptance going up, a lot of that is what I just explained..

[@debrawehrly6900]

I have always had a hunch that there was a biological, physiological basis to the development of homosexuality. I am happy that research is being conducted on this matter.

[@TeaParty1776]

I always had a hunch that mind/body unity and free will is evaded by modern liars.

[@mikemondano3624]

You and every human who has ever lived. You should have seen RuPaul sashay out of the womb.

[@SRWill64]

I've seen research from the time I was in high school in the early '80s that sexuality was connected to physical structures in the brain that we are born with and have no control over.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@SRWill64 Everything in the universe is connected to everything else. So?

[@TeaParty1776]

@@SRWill64 What physical structure in the brain causes people to be Leftists?

[@majortwang2396]

The idea that there is NO biological basis for sexual orientation is absurd, since sexual attraction is a biological thing.

[@inmytime0fdying]

id love to see a full documentary on this

[@mikemondano3624]

Then, watch one. Or read the books and papers. It's all out there for your satisfaction. No learning ever occurs without exertion.

[@spiritzweispirit1st638]

This Makes So Much Sense! _ Thank you.

[@SRWill64]

Where's the REST of the video??? I was just getting to the theory on stress of the mother that I'd heard years ago! I wanted to know if it's true.

[@wnklee6878]

Do your own research instead of expexting it served to you on a golden platter.

[@wnklee6878]

@@channel89134 I often make the same mistake. That is why I made my comment.

[@user-je3oi3xq1j]

Does hypothalamus changes occurs sexuality exchanges ??

[@Alakaz4m-gh9mv]

That's very interesting, never understood how sexual orientation works in-detail.

[@drrezaulhossain8181]

there may be hormones flactuations also

[@mikemondano3624]

Mine, maybe. But nothing can explain yours.

[@benzpinto]

what? there are homosexual animals too?

[@marioshazizi9359]

Yeah there are somes also you can create homosexual animals, done in the lab in mice

[@churblefurbles]

There are animals that eat their young as well.

[@Zero.0ne.]

There are also animals that change sex, and animals that are both sexes at the same time. Human sexuality is a spectrum. Most likely God is Love, nothing more or less.

[@mikemondano3624]

Some are always homosexual.

[@SRWill64]

MANY species in nature have a small part of the population that are homosexual. Not just in lab created animals as some uneducated people suggest.

[@davidbosankoe3759]

Someone told me anecdotal observations correlating an older age of a mothers during pregnancy and the likelihood of a man becoming a cross dresser. That would tie in with hormone levels during fetal development.

[@TeaParty1776]

Everything is correlated w/everything else in the right context. In _How To Lie With Statistics,_ the author discovered that the number of semicolons on the front page of the NYT was correlated w/the number of deaths in India each day. I presume that even you wont claim causality. A Leftist professor very recently claimed that everyone would get equal test scores with the right _context_. Maybe that context includes the highest IQ students being drunk. You evade mans volitional mind and its influence on psychology. What happens when a young child is encouraged, knowingly or not, to disintegrate his mind. The mind, contra modern culture, is the key to mans nature. And man is a mind/body unity. The body and mind are not coincidentally connected, as in mysticism and subjectivism

[@ApolloCalrissian]

Well then explain zoomers and their young millennial moms

[@michagozdz172]

I wonder if scientists done research like in video on bisexual men and women.

[@wandsworthboy]

Why does the documentry suddly stop! I want to hear about the stress on mothers in ww2 berlin and how it may have made there boys gay!

[@liberoAquila]

This has been criticized and has a lot of problems, it has selection bias, confounds sexual behavior with sexual identity, ignores women, ignores romantic attraction which isn't always sexual. Ignores bisexuality.

[@christopherpaul1810]

I'm asexual (yet hetero-romantic). Is there perhaps a scientific explanation for asexuality?

[@trustme2674]

yes, you are mentally ill.

[@miguelrosado7649]

There are a lot of rich gay people out there, they should fund this research and end the controversy. I only wish that those over the top gay people behave the same way that heterosexual behave in public; that "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME" does not goes well with people and causes some of the animosity toward gay people. Let's be nice and respectful of others.

[@TeaParty1776]

Simon LeVay himself, admitted that the study was inconclusive in 2001, “It’s important to stress what I didn’t find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.” (as quoted in Byrd, et al., 2001, emp. added)

[@mikemondano3624]

No one claims it is genetic. It is epigenetic. Even in monozygotic twins, if one be gay, there is only a 42% chance that the other will be also.

[@SRWill64]

But there ARE physical differences in the brain. And that is a fact no one can deny if they are honest. Genetic, no. Hormones the fetus is exposed to in utero, yes. There are two stages of pregnancy where the hormones are important. One is physical development and the other is brain development. That's just scientific fact.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@SRWill64 Assuming that there are those diffferences, maybe they are effect , not cause

[@TeaParty1776]

@@mikemondano3624 Man reproduces heterosexually, thus NEEDS a heterosexual psychology. Emotions and imagination and social approval do not create, change or destroy the facts of reality. Leftists want a Garden Of Eden where their emotions create prosperity and sexuality. Sadly, tragically, the concrete, material universe is reality, not a product of consciousness. Leftists are trying to get high without having to pay.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@SRWill64 If a child lives in a culture that encourages him to evade focusing his mind, what might be a psychological effect?

[@knighthonor44]

so is it possible to make somebody gay??

[@shane1948]

I believe yes, because people who are born blind experience everything differently.

[@mikemondano3624]

Yes. There are many causes, from intrauterine environment to methamphetamine. Everybody becomes omnisexual on some drugs and those behaviors are reinforced by repetition. Do you have a particular target in mind and what does he look like?

[@kmarie7051]

@mikemondano3624 No from the research it strongly suggests that sexual orientation is inborn, innate and unchangeable. Same way you cannot turn a gay man straight. It seems the organizational effects of hormones on the fetal brain prior to birth determines your sexual orientation and it has have permanent effects. sexual orientation is not a learned behaviour. Attraction is the most accurate representation of a person’s true sexual orientation because identity and behavior can be context-dependent. People may change the identity labels they use and who they have sex with but sexual attractions are stable over time. Sexual orientation is a pattern of desire, not of behaviour or sexual acts per se. It is not a simple act of will or a performance. We fall in love with men or women because we have gay, straight, or bisexual orientations and not because of choice.

[@kmarie7051]

@@mikemondano3624 Sexual orientation is not a learned behaviour.

[@mikemondano3624]

@@kmarie7051 Not usually. But it can be changed by many things, like meth addiction, for example.

[@user-uc1ys9zm8i]

GOD DECIDES

[@herrbonk3635]

What is "GOD"?

[@stephenpowstinger733]

I wouldn’t give a homosexual the last word on this kind of scientific study.

[@SRWill64]

Do your research from years before where many scientists have said the SAME THING. Don't be a biggot!

[@wnklee6878]

But it is a good starting point for investigation.

[@user-sf5fk6ox4c]

Bigoted straight male says what?! Because a man is homo/bi you think he's not capoable of sound thinking ??! You're not biased in your views ?!

[@majortwang2396]

His work has been repeated by other researchers, who came to exactly the same conclusions