How to make people gay
Everything you need to grasp about conversion practices
While it can be easy to ponder of conversion practices as something of the past, they can – and do – still happen to lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, and ace (LGBTQ+) people across the United Kingdom today.
We’ve developed this Q&A to answer some of the adj questions about conversion practices, and to tackle some myths and misconceptions you might have seen in the media.
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What are conversion practices?
Conversion practices are any intervention that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion practices work towards one goal, and that goal is to ‘cure’ someone from being lesbian, gay, bi, trans, ace, intersex and/or queer.
Conversion practices are one-directional: the intention is to get a person to transform or their sexual orientation or gender identity. This is the op
The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality
These figures may not be high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this group, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog upload, external that for much of modern history gay people haven't been living openly gay lives. Compelled by society to penetrate marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.
How many gay people possess children also depends on how you define being "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa go on to acquire married and have children.
"The category of same-sex sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you go to India, you'll spot that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't imply there's no homosexuality there."
Similarly in the West, there is evidence
Massive Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
Few aspects of human biology are as complex—or politically fraught—as sexual orientation. A clear genetic link would suggest that gay people are “born this way,” as opposed to having made a lifestyle choice. Yet some hesitate that such a finding could be misused to “cure” homosexuality, and most research teams contain shied away from tackling the topic.
Now a new study claims to dispel the notion that a single gene or handful of genes make a person prone to same-sex behavior. The analysis, which examined the genomes of nearly half a million men and women, found that although genetics are certainly deeply interested in who people choose to have sex with, there are no specific genetic predictors. Yet some researchers question whether the analysis, which looked at genes associated with sexual activity rather than attraction, can draw any real conclusions about sexual orientation.
“The message should remain the equal that this is a complex behavior that genetics definitely plays a par
When I read that Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Susan King had claimed chemicals in water are turning people gay, it wasn&#;t all that surprising.
It was only a few years ago that a UKIP councillor blamed a bout of British flooding on the passing of same-sex marriage legislation. Just a rare weeks ago, a long-serving Tory MP on the Isle of Wight was forced to fall out of the election race after telling a bunch of kids that homosexuality is erroneous. Tim Farron – the Liberal Democrat leader – has repeatedly been asked to clarify whether he believes an invisible bloke in the sky will dispatch two consenting adult men to an invisible scorching hellfire if they choose to do it up the bum (he eventually said he doesn&#;t).
It might be , but homophobia – both explicit and batshit – is still very much A Thing in British politics.
&#;There are a lot of feminising hormones getting into the environment and that has to be taken into consideration; it&#;s affecting people&#;s sexuality, basically,&#; Susan King said in a web chat with the Shropshire Star last week. &#;I&#;ve done a lot