homosexuality

We can add "homosexuality" to the list of things woo-woo diets claim to cure. Modern diet and stress cause homosexuality: a hypothesis and a potential therapy

An interesting paper in Archives of Sexual Behavior called Changes in American Adults’ Reported Same-Sex Sexual Experiences and Attitudes, 1973–2014. The paper uses data from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, an ongoing survey of around 30,000 U.S. adults conducted since 1972...

1. I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this already. 2. SMM&T is probably the more logicla place for this discussion but SI&CE gets more traffic. So do exclusively heterosexual woman exist? According to a study <insert usual warning here> by Gerulf Rieger, no; woman are innately sexually...

Hi. I saw this on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_sexual_orientation The first quote seems to imply that homosexuality may at least in part be due to an unbalanced family environment, where the parents are not equally loving. The second quote seems to imply that...

So I'm thinking this is perhaps a drastic misinterpretation. or satire. :p But the Pope did say some actual interesting stuff on homosexuality recently.

And so says "Professor" Judith Reisman of Liberty University (an unvalidated right wing diploma mill) in an article published by the (also right wing) World Net Daily. Even by the dubious standards of that home of home of woo and wingnuttery the article was little short of bizarre...

From the Quarterly Review of Biology This is an electronic publication sent out just a few days ago and so in the mean time is available to the public. Once the printed volume comes out, it will likely be closed (which is why I'm posting it here now for whoever would care to read it)...

An investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and published this weekend claims that up to eleven boys were castrated while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic church in the 1950s, supposedly to rid them of homosexuality Also reported is that one young man was castrated in 1956 after...

Nothing like a little Alex to lighten my day. r2w2TRxSLxw#!

In December 2011, 162 orthodox rabbis and "health professionals" have signed a "Declaration On The Torah Approach To Homosexuality". Therein, they claim that The signatories are mainly from the USA, but there are also some from Israel, the UK and other countries. New York-based Rabbi Aryeh...

I'm watching a mini series called the Manns, about the writer Thomas Mann. (The series is great, I highly recommend it). Mann had four children, two of them were gay. He himself seems to have been bi-sexual or gay. This made me think that there might be a inheritable component to sexual...

I am a gay woman, let me tell you about my Homosexual Lifestyle™: 7:00 AM: wake up, we have a nice cat and a mean cat. *nuzzle nuzzle nuzzle* has different meanings. If its the nice cat, it means she's made of matter and takes up space; if its the mean cat, he's hungry. Mean Cat is practically...

A religious leader in North Carolina faces trial on charges that he shot to death his four-​year old stepson and a 28 year old woman, the former because he believed the child might be gay, the latter because she couldn't bear children and wanted to leave his cult. Peter Lucas Moses, faces...

Oh, this is rich. German Catholic Doctors Offer Homeopathic 'Gay Treatment'

Split from Are most homosexuals atheists? Full blown, meaning openly gay and acting extremely feminine. Though Iraqis act feminine as it is. Half blown as you would say would probably refer to someone who is still in the closet and doesn't act quite as feminine.

Seems to me it would be kind of counter productive to be Christian and be a homosexual, seeing as how the Bible calls for their death. Some religions are more accepting, such as Episcopalians. Do you guys think that most homosexuals are atheists? I don't think I have met a gay who was...

Well considering how many people have considered, and still consider, homosexuality to be something that's not just immoral but also a disease of the mind i wonder if someone has ever been able to "cure" a homosexual so that he actually becomes a heterosexual? What treatments for this ghastly...

You have to see this to believe it. Go to: www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal God is killing birds in Arkansas because of the U.S. repeal of DADT.

"Low levels of mercury in the diet of male white ibises cause the birds to mate with each other rather than with females. As a result many of the females can't breed, and fewer chicks are produced." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19784-mercury-poisoning-makes-male-birds-homosexual.html...

Seems there's some differences of opinion within the Muslim world. They are NOT all marching in lock step. This is an article from two years ago, but still relevant I think. Should beheading be the penalty for homosexuals? Brunei Times Emphasis added. And here's the kicker.

why do some folks still think that being gay or lesbian is a choice? most science shows that gays and lesbians realize they are this way early on in life, sometimes even before puberty. and yet, lots of folks like to talk about it...as if its a choice. a choice, that can be changed...

i see this term quite a bit in forums, particularly coming from the mouths/keyboards of ultra right wings christians. personally, i find it paranoid and ludicrous. having grown up as a queer man, and knowing the injustices that have been inflicted on my queer brothers and lesbian sisters, i...

How far do you think and feel society has come as regards to accepting homosexuality in the last twenty years? What do you hold up as evidence of progress? Where do you think society is stagnated on the issue? What do you think are the worst arguments against homosexuality that you've heard...

An interesting finding just recently-the homosexual gene was found. Not in humans, but in mice. Questions regarding whether this is in anyway comparable to the human equivalent have been raised, but I'm more interested in the potential ramfications. Their was a lot of concern that homosexual...

I think many, if not most, Americans have heard the slogan "love the sinner, but not the sin" from the anti-homosexual agenda in the Christian Church. Well, I wonder how Christians would feel about the slogan I just came up with in the title. I think it's directly comparable and makes the...

I have heard people say that homosexuality is genetic. However, based on evolution, wouldn't homosexuality as a trait have been lost generations ago, due to the low reproductive rate of homosexuals? Is it generally accepted that homosexuality is a genetic trait? If so, how is this trait...

My, my, my.... Seems Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley, likes to espouse the Bible's 'literal meaning' when it comes to homosexuality. In fact, she's certain that it's evil, and should be punished by God killing those who are gay. I especially love her use of Leviticus in getting her...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2859895/Elton-John-claims-Jesus-was-gay.html JESUS was GAY - according to the gospel of SIR ELTON JOHN. The singer makes his controversial claim about the Lord in a new US interview that will enrage America's bible belt. Elton, 62...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/28/afghan-men-struggle-sexual-identity-study-finds/ I'm not sure what to make of this. Has something been lost in translation or is this an accurate description of what is happening?

I'm no scientist. I'm an artist. And while this article seems enlightened to me, I'm not sure about what's being said about Darwin. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_gay_animal_kingdom/ From the article: "Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake. Not about...