Scientists say you can "blame" (or thank!) your big brother for your homosexuality.
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A study reported in Science News magazine in June shows that the more older male siblings a man has, the more likely he is to be gay.
Even if your older brothers were all off at college when you were born, you're more likely to be gay if you have biological older brothers (step, half and adoptive brothers don't increase your homosexual tendencies), psychologist Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, told Science News.
Bogaert told Science News that, regardless of the amount of time spent with older brothers during childhood, the number of biological older brothers correlated with the propensity for homosexuality.
The reason for this birth-order link is unknown. Bogaert postulates in Science News that a mother's immune system may treat male fetuses as foreign bodies, attacking them with antibodies that alter sex-related brain development, Bogaert suggests in Science News.
Both my brothers are probably gay, as well as my Dad. I'm the only "out" one.
In my experience, there is a higher proportion of Gay males out there than the so-called 10%. I'd say it is closer to 30% if "curious" or "eroticized by the Gym" is added.
this is just fraud scine theory,just fake , i m MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN,27 YEARS OLD PERSON,dont have any older brother dont have any gay culture in my country pakistan,but i m gay,
although having 3 little brothers and they hate gayism,
so its just a fake theory
More men equals more odds. For example, if a man and a woman has 7 sons in the family, ONE of them is bound to be gay because 1 out of 7 in the world are.If they had 4 sons, the odds are still bigger, yet not as much. Even if they only had 1 son, the chances for him being gay are small, but doesnt mean that it cant happen. (He's just more special)
Hahaha What a crock of shit! I am the older brother. My younger bro was married with 3 kids and totally in love with his wife. I on the other hand, had been through a few relationships and even married Twice! Before I realized I was gay and that the people I had the most fun with, always wanted to be with were guys... Bogaert is another genius trying to figure out what just is!
There is no way of truly knowing what drives us to be homosexual, chemical, brothers or otherwise. We just are, can medical science just accept that, obviously not!
we are a big bag of chemicals,we respond only by what chemicals are controlling us.no one is stright, or gay,we can all be either dom or pass.these are the chemicals that own us.
Gee people, are you that hard up for commentary? We can blame NO one for being gay but the gene pool. When will the medical field quit trying to place the blame somewhere.
I AM the older brother.. and my younger is straight.. and so are both of my gay cousins the oldest siblings in their families.. so what's our excuse?
It's always challenging to come up with one origin for anything, or to suggest that there may be even a main origin, but this, while interesting, seems to put a lot of weight on one particular way of looking at the world. It doesn't seem to hold water for me becuase of its limited perspective and attempt to find one defining origin. Also, I am the oldest of 6, there are 4 brothers. While all my gay friends wish that my youngest brother, an A&F model, were gay, he's not at all. I'm the only gay one.
It is highly problematic way of quoting scientific research, but I do not think that internal chemical or biological reasoning for someone being gay makes them less normal... similar process occur in early stages of embryo to deter main other characteristics of a human, so why would this be problematic
correction: meant to say "...encouraging health, physically and mentally."
The point to learn about this, as the member "pexuality" who wrote below me suggests, that we really need to keep our wits - have our brains. Just because someone is a scientist, a counsellor or psychologist, or gay, a gay community center coordinator, so forth...doesn't mean such people have cleared the all the muck out of the heads in this homophobic society. I'm still amazed at what some gay people think about themselves. So it is imperative for all of us, for our health and survival, to us our intelligent, healthy minds to separate the truth from the trash.
I look to realjock.com for a positive forum for me and any gay man. After all, it's all about encouraging health, not physically and mentally. This article "It's big brother's fault you're gay" does nothing to encourage our health and understanding of ourselves. It only enforces negative self-concepts of ourselves, and ingorance misunderstanding about gay people and sexuality. Attempts to prove that homosexuality is not normal, that "it" comes from some kind of mishap where being heterosexual is the natural human "default," as a homophobic priest once proclaimed, come out now and then and are soon dismissed as the unscientific nonsense that they are. Not that it's hard to tell. The whole premise and interpretation of data in this study, and the content and even wording of this article,is filled with both subtle and blantant homophobia, right from the erroneous first sentence. So this is not "fair reporting" and indeed not objectivity. I am very disappointed to say the least in realjock publishing this article. It has done nothing good, nothing to enlighten anyone, and nothing to encourage our health and self-esteem as gay men, or society in general.
Where is the statistical data? Does having five older brothers correlate to a 500% increased likelihood of the younger brother being gay? Or is it only a 2% or 3% greater likelihood? Without the facts this story isn't even fluff. It's a non-story, idle speculation at best. Please give us credit for having brains!
OttawaMike wrote:
Both my brothers are probably gay, as well as my Dad. I'm the only "out" one.
In my experience, there is a higher proportion of Gay males out there than the so-called 10%. I'd say it is closer to 30% if "curious" or "eroticized by the Gym" is added.
Sep 19 10:54 PM
yasirkhan wrote:
this is just fraud scine theory,just fake , i m MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN,27 YEARS OLD PERSON,dont have any older brother dont have any gay culture in my country pakistan,but i m gay,
although having 3 little brothers and they hate gayism,
so its just a fake theory
Sep 17 3:18 AM
JakeCampson wrote:
More men equals more odds. For example, if a man and a woman has 7 sons in the family, ONE of them is bound to be gay because 1 out of 7 in the world are.If they had 4 sons, the odds are still bigger, yet not as much. Even if they only had 1 son, the chances for him being gay are small, but doesnt mean that it cant happen. (He's just more special)
Sep 16 12:54 AM
CJROXX wrote:
Hahaha What a crock of shit! I am the older brother. My younger bro was married with 3 kids and totally in love with his wife. I on the other hand, had been through a few relationships and even married Twice! Before I realized I was gay and that the people I had the most fun with, always wanted to be with were guys... Bogaert is another genius trying to figure out what just is!
Sep 14 10:25 PM
dritz wrote:
There is no way of truly knowing what drives us to be homosexual, chemical, brothers or otherwise. We just are, can medical science just accept that, obviously not!
Sep 14 1:35 PM
applepie wrote:
we are a big bag of chemicals,we respond only by what chemicals are controlling us.no one is stright, or gay,we can all be either dom or pass.these are the chemicals that own us.
Sep 14 11:24 AM
beef wrote:
Gee people, are you that hard up for commentary? We can blame NO one for being gay but the gene pool. When will the medical field quit trying to place the blame somewhere.
Sep 13 11:32 PM
Tractorboy wrote:
I AM the older brother.. and my younger is straight.. and so are both of my gay cousins the oldest siblings in their families.. so what's our excuse?
Sep 12 3:42 AM
acuariosalvaje wrote:
It's always challenging to come up with one origin for anything, or to suggest that there may be even a main origin, but this, while interesting, seems to put a lot of weight on one particular way of looking at the world. It doesn't seem to hold water for me becuase of its limited perspective and attempt to find one defining origin. Also, I am the oldest of 6, there are 4 brothers. While all my gay friends wish that my youngest brother, an A&F model, were gay, he's not at all. I'm the only gay one.
Sep 11 2:24 PM
croatianSTUD wrote:
It is highly problematic way of quoting scientific research, but I do not think that internal chemical or biological reasoning for someone being gay makes them less normal... similar process occur in early stages of embryo to deter main other characteristics of a human, so why would this be problematic
Sep 09 6:59 AM
tim100 wrote:
correction: meant to say "...encouraging health, physically and mentally."
The point to learn about this, as the member "pexuality" who wrote below me suggests, that we really need to keep our wits - have our brains. Just because someone is a scientist, a counsellor or psychologist, or gay, a gay community center coordinator, so forth...doesn't mean such people have cleared the all the muck out of the heads in this homophobic society. I'm still amazed at what some gay people think about themselves. So it is imperative for all of us, for our health and survival, to us our intelligent, healthy minds to separate the truth from the trash.
Sep 04 6:11 PM
tim100 wrote:
I look to realjock.com for a positive forum for me and any gay man. After all, it's all about encouraging health, not physically and mentally. This article "It's big brother's fault you're gay" does nothing to encourage our health and understanding of ourselves. It only enforces negative self-concepts of ourselves, and ingorance misunderstanding about gay people and sexuality. Attempts to prove that homosexuality is not normal, that "it" comes from some kind of mishap where being heterosexual is the natural human "default," as a homophobic priest once proclaimed, come out now and then and are soon dismissed as the unscientific nonsense that they are. Not that it's hard to tell. The whole premise and interpretation of data in this study, and the content and even wording of this article,is filled with both subtle and blantant homophobia, right from the erroneous first sentence. So this is not "fair reporting" and indeed not objectivity. I am very disappointed to say the least in realjock publishing this article. It has done nothing good, nothing to enlighten anyone, and nothing to encourage our health and self-esteem as gay men, or society in general.
Sep 04 5:47 PM
Graffix wrote:
Where is the statistical data? Does having five older brothers correlate to a 500% increased likelihood of the younger brother being gay? Or is it only a 2% or 3% greater likelihood? Without the facts this story isn't even fluff. It's a non-story, idle speculation at best. Please give us credit for having brains!
Aug 28 10:30 PM