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News: Did homosexuality evolve to help humans bond?
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Did homosexuality evolve to help humans bond?
Did homosexuality evolve to help humans bond? People who are more open to the idea of sleeping with the same sex have higher levels of 'social' hormones
- Scientists looked at the link between progesterone and sexual attitudes
- Progesterone is a hormone that contributes to formation of social bonds
- Heterosexuals with more of the hormone are more open to homosexuality
- In men, thinking about social bonds and friendships had the same effect
- UK study claims there is a continuum between affection and sexuality
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Homosexual behaviour may have evolved to improve how well humans bond and get along with each other, according to new research.
Researchers found that heterosexual women with high levels of the hormone progesterone are more open to the idea of engaging in sexual behaviour with other women.
Similarly, when heterosexual men are subtly reminded of the importance of having male friends and allies, they report more positive attitudes toward engaging in sexual behaviour with other men.
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Similarly, when heterosexual men are subtly reminded of the importance of having male friends and allies, they report more positive attitudes toward engaging in sexual behaviour with other men. The hormone progesterone (a crystal of the hormone is pictured) is known to contribute to the formation of social bonds
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The study provides the first evidence that our need to bond with others increases our openness to engage in homosexual behaviour.
The hormone progesterone is known to contribute to the formation of social bonds, which have many benefits for humans.
The hormone is produced mainly in the ovaries in women, and in the adrenal glands in men.
It is one of the main hormones responsible for caring or friendly behaviour, and levels rise when people have close and friendly interactions.
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WHAT IS PROGESTERONE? - The hormone progesterone is known to contribute to the formation of social bonds, which have many adaptive benefits for humans.
- The hormone is produced mainly in the ovaries in women and in the adrenal glands in men.
- It is one of the main hormones responsible for caring or friendly behaviour and levels rise when people have close and friendly interactions.
- Women's levels of progesterone peak after ovulation when the chance of becoming pregnant is dramatically reduced.
- This research looks at how progesterone, a hormone that has been shown to increase motivation to form close bonds, might also underlie the motivation to affiliate with those of the same sex, sexually.
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The researchers first developed a measure of homoerotic motivation through an online survey of 244 participants, with questions including: 'The idea of kissing a person of the same sex is sexually arousing to me', and 'If someone of the same sex made a pass at me I would be disgusted'.
The researchers then measured progesterone in 92 women's saliva and found that as progesterone increased, so too did openness to the idea of engaging in homosexual activity.
In a second study, the researchers measured levels of progesterone in the saliva of 59 men before all were randomly assigned to one of three groups.
They were then asked to complete word puzzles, one using friendship words, one using sexual words, and a third using neutral words.
Men asked to complete the affiliative and friendship word puzzle showed 26 per cent greater homoerotic motivation, compared to the men in the sexual or neutral conditions.
In addition, those men with the highest progesterone in the affiliative condition showed 41 per cent greater homoerotic motivation compared to high progesterone men in the other two groups.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz3K6H7NSYH
 We need to inject this Hormone on so many people out there!!
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Tbh people need to embrace us more tbh seeing the increasing evidence for us forming the fabric of society tbh
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Originally posted by hello_world
Tbh people need to embrace us more tbh seeing the increasing evidence for us forming the fabric of society tbh
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maybe
Having sex with your friends will surely increase bonds
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I am socially awkward/antisocial and bisexual (leaning more towards gay) so I don't see the connection 
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Except the main basis of evolution is survival of the fittest, so why would the most adaptive of our species be sexually oriented to not reproduce? The evolution argument doesn't fit into being gay well at all.
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Originally posted by LoveInStereo
Except the main basis of evolution is survival of the fittest, so why would the most adaptive of our species be sexually oriented to not reproduce? The evolution argument doesn't fit into being gay well at all.
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Well you can't survive without help, this is one way to get it
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Originally posted by hello_world
Tbh people need to embrace us more tbh seeing the increasing evidence for us forming the fabric of society tbh
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Inject me baby. I'm a free bitch.
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well of course. Homosexuality's era is not OVER yet, we are just starting up
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Originally posted by HotHeaven
well of course. Homosexuality's era is not OVER yet, we are just starting up
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Rise lotus
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Originally posted by RatedG²
Well you can't survive without help, this is one way to get it
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Good point!
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Originally posted by RatedG²
maybe
Having sex with your friends will surely increase bonds
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Kii, let me just take a few friendships to a new level real quick.
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No, homosexuality developed to control the population.
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
No, homosexuality developed to control the population.
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Not true.
Homosexuality doesn't develop like that. If you don't reproduce, you don't develop and you're actually one with 'bad genes' while heteros fit the 'survival of the fittest', because they reproduce. I think that in the thousands and millions of years, homosexuality developed because people simply went with the opposite sex, even if they were bisexual (which, I believe, most are).
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these research and their conflicting results
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Originally posted by LoveInStereo
Except the main basis of evolution is survival of the fittest, so why would the most adaptive of our species be sexually oriented to not reproduce? The evolution argument doesn't fit into being gay well at all.
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You're misusing information to fit your opinion. I don't think many scientists would argue that survival of the fittest is the end-all-be-all. Survival of the fittest also sometimes refers to the POPULATION not the individual.
You're also not using evolution correctly
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolib...ptions_faq.php
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Originally posted by hello_world
Tbh people need to embrace us more tbh seeing the increasing evidence for us forming the fabric of society tbh
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Honestly!!
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Originally posted by Swine
Not true.
Homosexuality doesn't develop like that. If you don't reproduce, you don't develop and you're actually one with 'bad genes' while heteros fit the 'survival of the fittest', because they reproduce. I think that in the thousands and millions of years, homosexuality developed because people simply went with the opposite sex, even if they were bisexual (which, I believe, most are).
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When a woman is pregnant with a boy, her body releases antigens in the womb to feminize the male embryo. The female body is supposed to do this. However, if a woman has many sons, there will be more antigens in the womb with each successive son. Studies have shown that with each older brother that a man has, his chance of being gay is increased by 28-48%. Although the data isn't very concrete, a definite correlation has been shown between male homosexuality and having older brothers. Therefore nature is basically telling this woman to stop having so many kids otherwise they will turn out gay and unable to reproduce because the original mother has already birthed a too many sons into the world! And that's how it may act as population control.
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
When a woman is pregnant with a boy, her body releases antigens in the womb to feminize the male embryo. The female body is supposed to do this. However, if a woman has many sons, there will be more antigens in the womb with each successive son. Studies have shown that with each older brother that a man has, his chance of being gay is increased by 28-48%. Although the data isn't very concrete, a definite correlation has been shown between male homosexuality and having older brothers. Therefore nature is basically telling this woman to stop having so many kids otherwise they will turn out gay and unable to reproduce because the original mother has already birthed a too many sons into the world! And that's how it may act as population control.
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I'm gay and I have 0 brothers and 1 sister. I know there is such thing as exceptions to a rule but this one has WAY too many exceptions.
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