Download Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation AudioBook Free
What causes a kid to grow up gay or straight? In such a booklet, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes an abundance of scientific research that points to 1 inescapable conclusion: Intimate orientation results generally from an interaction between genes, sex human hormones, and the skin cells of the expanding body and brain. LeVay helped create this field in 1991 with a much-publicized research in Knowledge, where he reported on a difference in the brain structure between gay and direct men. Since that time, an entire technological self-discipline has sprung up throughout the quest for a biological reason of intimate orientation. In such a book, LeVay offers a clear reason of where the technology stands today, taking the audience on the whirlwind tour of laboratories that specialize in genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and family demographics. He details, for example, how experts have manipulated the sex hormone degrees of animals during development, creating them to partner preferentially with animals of their own gender. LeVay also accounts on the prevalence of homosexual tendencies among wild animals, which range from Graylag geese to the Bonobo chimpanzee. Although some details stay unresolved, the overall conclusion is quite clear: A person's sexual orientation occurs in large part from biological processes that are already underway before beginning. LeVay also makes it clear these lines of research have a lot of potential because--far from wanting to discover "what went incorrect" in the lives of gay people, wanting to develop "cures" for homosexuality, or returning to traditional explanations that center on parent-child connections, various forms of "training," or early intimate experiences--our modern scientists are increasingly viewing intimate variety as something to be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into culture.
