Latest Science on Why You Like Dick

[MsGuy]

The Boston Globe just published an article on the results of recent research on the origin of sexual orientation. Easy to read, light on technical jargon and well worth reading. Too complex to summarize here, so just man up and read the article.

[Diverdan]

Thanks for sharing, MsGuy... you are right, you can't really summarize it quickly, but it is certainly a worthwhile read. Thanks again. Nice to see some substance here at the Forum among so much fluff! (IMHO of course)

[mike carey]

Excellent article, MsGuy, thanks for sharing. It's a shame that much of this sort of research is in Canadian universities because of the timidity of US ones in the face of actual or likely Tea Party pressure.

[MsGuy]

Thanks again. Nice to see some substance here at the Forum among so much fluff!

 

Well... I kinda find Fluff entertaining.

 

http://www.companyofmen.org/data/avatars/m/6/6378.jpg?1435470148

 

Informative too!

[gallahadesquire]

The Boston Globe just published an article on the results of recent research on the origin of sexual orientation. Easy to read, light on technical jargon and well worth reading. Too complex to summarize here, so just man up and read the article.

 

Here's a ref. to the 2005 article that this article is about:

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2005/08/14/what-makes-people-gay/QEvwCX2VCmlVQl4qinvsJM/story.html

[MsGuy]

Thanks, Gallahad, I should have included your link in my original post.

[+ purplekow]

Interesting article. The brother who does not wish to discuss which sex attracts him, it seems to me, would more like likely be gay and still struggling. Both articles were informative.

[Lookin]

Theory has its place, though I think further empirical research is needed. http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/images/smilies/smiley-blowjob.gif

[mike carey]

So why is it a shame that much of this sort of research is done in Canadian universities? I understand what you are implying, but you inadvertently insult the intellectual capacity of others with the hegemony that USAmerican research is or should necessarily be the first and best of all things innovative.

Sorry about that, no such insult intended. However, by truncating my sentence you have me saying that the fact that the research is done in Canada at all is the issue (it's not). The shame is not that the research is done in Canadian universities, it is the extent to which it is not done in the US as a result of perceived or real political presssure. It is the reason for its absence that prompted my comment. Academic institutions specialise in all sorts of different fields of research for their own reasons, and that is entirely appropriate. I don't think that US ones are any better than others, nor do I think that they should or even could be the leaders in all disciplines. To cast my comment as claiming intellectual superiority for US institutions is, in my view, an unwarranted inference, but I'm sorry that I wrote it in such a way that you could do that.

[+ Gar1eth]

So why is it a shame that much of this sort of research is done in Canadian universities? I understand what you are implying, but you inadvertently insult the intellectual capacity of others with the hegemony that USAmerican research is or should necessarily be the first and best of all things innovative.

 

 

Did you mean to say something more like "...you inadvertently insult the intellectual capacity of others with the belief in the hegemony of USAmerican research...."?

 

I don't like receiving "tallywackers" and not even that fond of giving oral. But I like looking at them and feeling them in my hands.

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

So does this article change anyone's opinion about 15 year olds in Oregon being eligible for sex reassignment surgery?

 

http://www.companyofmen.org/threads/sex-changes-for-15-year-olds-without-parental-consent.106063/#post-981312

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

It's difficult for me to tell exactly because it partially depends on how flexed/extended my hand is. But I think my index finger is pretty close in length to my ring finger. What about anyone else?

 

Gman

[+ SundayZip]

Theory has its place, though I think further empirical research is needed. http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/images/smilies/smiley-blowjob.gif

 

Thanks MsGuy for sharing this article. It's thought provoking and insightful but I can't seem to type a coherent response. I'm too mesmerized by Lookin's blowjob smiley faces.

[+ Gar1eth]

Theory has its place, though I think further empirical research is needed. http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/images/smilies/smiley-blowjob.gif

 

Thanks MsGuy for sharing this article. It's thought provoking and insightful but I can't seem to type a coherent response. I'm too mesmerized by Lookin's blowjob smiley faces.

 

It's like tribbles having sex. And now I can't un-see it.

 

Gman

[Wolfer]

I find the notion of starting kids on meds to stave off puberty very disconcerting. First I want to say that in the case of thransgendered people, this of course, would be a great benefit to them. But how can anyone (the kids, the parents, the councellors) know for sure that at such a young age, the kids are really, genuinely transgendered? If they end up not being transgendered, I understand from the article that some things done by the meds are irreversable for life. I understand people want the best for their kids and I understand the need for trans people's rights, but how can a life altering decision like that ever be made at such a young age?

 

When I was a young kid, pre-puberty, I played with dolls, barbies, dressed up in girl's clothes, wore make-up, high heels and almost exclusively associated with girls. So this would be "signs" of me being transgendered in early childhood? But once I hit puberty, all this fell away of its own accord and was replaced with video games and tabletop rpg's. I've always been a man. Imagine if I'd be growing up now and my parents thought I needed hormonal treatment... It would've messed me up for life! Although I do seem to remember I never actually identified as a girl. So I guess if they did ask me I would've said: "No, ma, I'm a boy, I just like nice things," while putting on her crystal earrings and pearl necklace.

 

One of the reasons I don't dress-up now is because I'm lazy and it's too much work. I mean, have you seen the make-up tutorials on Youtube? Scruffy and cutesy unkempt is my signature look, now. Even my hair is cut in such a way I just can get up in the morning without having to do anything to it!

[+ Gar1eth]

Even my hair is cut in such a way I just can get up in the morning without having to do anything to it!

 

I understand this completely because my hair has totally fallen out (since I was 28) in such a way....

 

Gman

[+ Charlie]

I put this post aside when I first saw it, because I had a lot of other things I needed to read first. I'm glad I did, because I just got back to it, and found it very interesting. It also dovetails nicely with a really good article on gender dysphoria in last Sunday's NY Times. I was one of those kids whose gender dysphoria disappeared in my teens, when I began to understand and accept my sexual orientation, and realized that the fact that I was sexually attracted to males didn't mean that I was a woman trapped in a man's body, which I never really felt. Although I liked and was sympathetic toward women, I didn't want to be one; I wanted men to perceive me as a sexually attractive man.

 

Thanks for the link.