We need to learn more about our human sexuality.

Yet another scientific study that puts nature at the heart of homosexuality. This time from Sweden where researchers used brain scanning technology to map the brains of homo and heterosexual individuals of both sexes. The research was conducted by Drs. Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström from the Stockholm Brain Institute at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute and is published online in the June 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US.

The authors of the study concluded that the brains of homosexual subjects demonstrated “sex-atypical cerebral asymmetry and functional connections”. These differences could not be explained simply by “learned effects”, and they suggested a “linkage to neurobiological entities”. A cognitive biology expert told BBC News that he believed these brain differences were decided early in the development of the fetus. There was no longer any argument, “if you are gay, you are born gay,” he said.

It’s time we stop arguing and fighting over our sexuality and time we started studying it so we can understand it. Such a powerful force should not be ignored, moralized, or tabooed – it should be studied like any other human process for the good of us all. Perhaps then we’ll begin to accept all humans as humans rather than labeling some as devils or non-humans.

It should be OKAY to be born gay. As a happy practicing heterosexual, homosexuality does not appeal to me – but I do not consider the condition wrong, immoral, or evil – no more than I consider my condition of heterosexual as wrong, immoral, or evil. Heterosexuality works for me because I was BORN heterosexual – and have supported that by NATURE all my life. How we are born should give us an indication of how we should live. Embracing our NATURE seems to me a good way to use our powerfully big brains and social natures. No need to force the stream to run uphill when flowing downhill works just fine.

“PET and MRI show differences in cerebral asymmetry and functional connectivity between homo- and heterosexual subjects.”
Ivanka Savic and Per Lindström.
PNAS, Published online June 16, 2008.
DOI:10.1073/pnas.0801566105

Click here for Abstract.