Why be gay?

This blog explains my views of homosexuality based strictly on a scientific and psychological perspective.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Some of the questions asked

After the first post, many people have asked me questions.

One of the more popular questions is why a guy would choose another guy instead of a girl to think about when he needs a good thought to keep him away from thinking about other things. And also why does he feel so interested and fascinated with another guy specifically rather than a girl. Is his liking controlled by a "gay gene" as another person also told me that this is the case? Is being gay determined by nature or nurture?

The reason is because the guy feels safer with the qualities of a guy instead of a girl. Sometimes humans and early man feel that things that are more similar to them pose less of a threat to changing and corrupting his identity, so there's a larger possibility that its a friend and not foe.

He also feels really fascinated with another guy rather than a girl because he sees another similar gender person that he can more easily read and understand rather than another gender that feels foreign to him. And things that are more familiar to him would have similar characteristics that allows him to decipher its qualities more readily, which could be why he reads and absorbs the same gender person's interesting qualities easier than of that of another opposite gender that is less familiar and qualities less easily readible. So I don't think this is the work of a "gay gene", whether it actually exists or not.

So there are many points to consider,
1. Another same gender guy tells his mind that the other guy is a "safer" person than the girl because of a greater similarity of characteristics.
2. This allows him to open up and decipher the guy's qualities more readily.
3. The similar characteristics of another same gender person allows him to read and decipher his qualities easier and more efficiently.
4. The amount of interesting qualities deciphered of the other guy makes him seem to feel that guys are more interesting and "safer" than girls, which is actually a normal feeling. Of course guys feel more comfortable with guys which is why guys often have guys to hang out more often with instead of girls.
5. Remember that a person would more often discriminate between the safe qualities and threat qualities of different people if he has already been greatly exposed to threats that have harmed his identity before and he feels the need to protect himself from such threats. Which is why he feels the importance and need to be with people that are "safe" to him.

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