Comments on: SCIENTISTS MAKE GAY WORMS https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Safarigirl https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6336 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6336 Youre sexual blue print. As a gay 38 year old woman i have read so to say many articles or books regarding this Brain sex issue and i have come to rest with it that in some research article it was proofed or sounded like it that when you’re still in you’re mother’s womb at plus minus 6 weeks you’re sexual orientation blue print for you’re mind is set (by by the hormone input you got in that first 6 weeks ) and you might grow physicle as a woman but you’re mind is already set like a male’s! So i rest my case! Im very happy to be a lesbian and i would likewise want people to accept one another just the way they are and respect each other.

]]> By: Robanaurochs https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6339 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6339 Wrong choice. I don’t think this helps very much with anything. It is well known that more primitive life forms can alter their sex if the ratio of male to female is not satisfactory. How do we know that this wasn’t the case here. They should try with something more advanced than a simple worm.

]]> By: Robanaurochs https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6340 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/2007/10/30/scientists-make-gay-worms/#comment-6340 In reply to Safarigirl.

Sort of…. There are many theories but there are two main camps amongst scientists: hormonal or genetic. At the moment there is no clear leader. But all scientists doing any serious research do agree on some major points: homosexuality is indeed biological, not taught from the environment and cannot be changed.

Regardless of whether it’s caused genetically, or hormonally, there seem to be two centres in the brain that are very close to each other. One controls sexual attraction and the other controls social and physical behavious (ie masculine or femine). These two centres work independently of each other. Thus, in the extremes, you get four different types of people:

masculine-straight, feminine-straight, masculine-gay, and feminine-gay.

It should be pointed out that these are extremes and people can sit somewhere inbetween.

Research is also hinting at a third centre in the brain that determines gender identity and could possibly explain why some people feel the need to dress according to the opposite sex or, more extremely, to undergo sexual re-assignment surgery.

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