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At least in the Gallup data, there are not pronounced differences in LGBTQ identity across lines of education, income or race. Even as sexual identities are shifting, it’s less clear if they reflect underlying changes in sexual practices. Through this trade-off, the maternal relatives' "gay man genes," though they aren't expressed as such, tend to get passed to future generations in spite of their tendency to make their male inheritors gay.
While no one knows which genes, exactly, these might be, at least one of them appears to be located on the X chromosome, according to genetic modeling by Camperio Ciani and his colleagues.
She holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Tufts University and has studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Current polling shows us a snapshot of who we are at this specific moment in time, not who we will inevitably become.
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Many men report that they had experiences with people of the same sex when they were young.
Close to half of gay and lesbian adults (48 percent) report feeling this way as often. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to identify as LGBTQ than young men. Americans who identify as straight or heterosexual are far less likely to feel unsure about who they are; 29 percent report this feeling within the past year.”
For most of us, these personal doubts and questions are not permanent.
For some people, coming out is a positive step. As we age, our social context also changes, which alters the type of people and places that influence our behavior and beliefs. For several years, studies led by Andrea Camperio Ciani at the University of Padova in Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal aunts of gay men tend to have significantly more offspring than the maternal relatives of straight men.
Always use protection during sex and sex play to prevent contact with body fluids that could transmit a sexually transmissible infection.
The best protection against sexually transmissible infections is to use barrier protection such as condoms and dams (a thin piece of latex placed over the anal area during oral sex). A 2022 Business Insider article describes how some young women exposed to social media algorithms expressed greater openness to identifying as LGBTQ:
“The women said they joined TikTok to escape pandemic boredom or despair, only to find themselves drawn to videos of women kissing, dancing sexily in thirst traps, or discussing compulsory heterosexuality — the idea that women are socialized to assume they must like and be in relationships with men.”
“As their ‘For You’ pages filled with queer content, the women began to question the years they spent solely pursuing relationships with men.
They also tend to be overrepresented among atheists and virgins. Men who go on to describe themselves as ‘same-sex attracted’ or ‘gay’ have a strong physical and emotional attraction to men that they don’t usually feel for women.
Being a gay man is natural
There is a lot of pressure from society for young men to be heterosexual or ‘straight’. For others, these feelings don't start until later in life.
In less than a decade, the percentage of young women who identify as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as well. This occurs because, as al-Gharbi writes, “the widespread notion that people who are most oppressed can understand society most clearly… and should be given more deference and respect.”
It’s a provocative theory, and it may help explain how our current culture has altered social incentives.
Some men who are attracted to other men, are also attracted to women.