Sexual Distortion

Are brains “Gay”? You have a sexual brain. Right? Women’s brains are innately different from men’s brains. Right? Homosexual brains are innately different from heterosexual brains.Right? Transgendered brains are innately different from heterosexual brains. Right? You’re born with these brains, and can’t change them. Right? Well—we don’t think so. It’s the subject of a continuing scientific scrap. But this chapter shows that the brain is surprisingly unsexy, and there’s little argument about it. The clearest conclusion from this chapter is that the brain is plastic, changeable, and that you are able to change your brain and your sexual feelings, though this may sometimes take considerable effort. Let’s trace the thinking of scientists about this. X and Y chromosomes produce sharp gender differences The X and Y chromosomes are very different. The X chromosome is very long and complex, the Y chromosome is short and simple! You would expect this huge difference to be as strongly reflected in the brain as it is in physical differences between male and female. Figure 21 shows this clear differentiation in male and female bodies, particularly the genitalia. Intersex conditions are rare.

Whitehead, Neil; Whitehead, Briar. My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Science (pp. 169-170). Whitehead Associates. Kindle Edition.

We could sum this up crudely and rather incorrectly, by saying “genes make proteins, not (sexual) preferences.” (Actually they are only recipes for proteins, and don’t do the work themselves.) If the DNA is correctly “read” and its recipe precisely followed, the “right” proteins will be produced in the cell and the gene will have been “expressed.” If, however, the process is blocked, either through biological accident or through normal feedback mechanisms at higher levels, the gene is said to have been “repressed.” In simple organisms, most genes are expressed, but, in complex organisms, only about 10-15% are expressed in any one organ. For example, genes coding for proteins involved in the development and function of the eye will be repressed in cells in the region of the toenail. The pattern of proteins produced depends on the pattern of repression. Some of the proteins are also enzymes. They act as catalysts in chemical reactions producing more proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids (fats) from smaller components, i.e., from amino acids, simple sugars (such as glucose), and fatty acids, or they break larger molecules to smaller ones. This means far more than just 22,000 unique proteins are produced; estimates range from 200,000, to as high as a few million, and perhaps one tenth of those in a single type of cell. Biochemists themselves rarely appreciate how complex a single cell is. To use a metaphor: one single fertilised ovum, for example, resembles a vast plain crammed with about a billion dancing figures on a complex grid, either spinning alone or briefly forming long chains or small groups or circles, only to break away and form thousands of others. There are about one billion biochemical reactions each second (plus or minus a factor of ten) within this single celli—a dazzlingly complex mesh of actions, interactions, reactions, feedback and control paths, and co-operation and interference, causing thousands of genes, and all the gene products within the cell, to interact. More than 100 trillion other cells in this potential human body have yet to develop in the same way and begin to interact with each other in this extraordinary dance of life.

Whitehead, Neil; Whitehead, Briar. My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Science (pp. 19-20). Whitehead Associates. Kindle Edition.

No gene is an island—it interacts with other genes. In this biochemical ecology it is almost impossible for any one gene, or a minor combination of genes to completely control all the others, though a small group of genes does determine (usually) the body form and organisation of organs in the body and the expression of all other genes during development. The simple world of monk Gregor Mendel and his peas—in which single traits like tallness, colour and seed shape are each determined by a single gene is almost never seen in human genetics. One paper found 567 interactions between 268 of the genes in yeast,18 How many would there have been for the whole genome? It is quite possible the complexity is too great for humans to grasp. Hamer would have been happier if he had found several interacting genes. It is very unlikely that a single gene is responsible for SSA. Could SSA be a result of sudden mutation? It’s highly unlikely the gay community or geneticists would accept such an explanation, but from a biological point of view, could SSA possibly be the result of a mutation? What causes a mutation? It can be something as simple as one wrong DNA triplet code in a critical place. The effect might be like a plane crashing in the middle of the group of dancers. They may form new circles and groups to try to compensate for the deaths of their companions, but things will never be the same again, even though the cells contain several enzymic mechanisms for repair which work quite effectively.

Whitehead, Neil; Whitehead, Briar. My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Science (pp. 21-22). Whitehead Associates. Kindle Edition.

My Genes Made Me Do It! (the title is facetious) is an attempt to place in the public arena the scientific facts about homosexuality—particularly the information that the homosexual orientation is not inborn or hard-wired, and that sexual orientation can naturally undergo huge change. The West has been subject to such a campaign of misinformation and disinformation in the last 20-30 years that its public institutions, from legislatures and judiciaries to the church and mental health professions widely believe that the homosexual orientation is innate—in the sense of biologically imprinted—and therefore unchangeable.

Whitehead, Neil; Whitehead, Briar. My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Science (p. 4). Whitehead Associates. Kindle Edition.

sexual orientation is not inborn but develops over some years in response to an individual’s response to life events—as many human predicaments do homosexual orientation can change, i.e., half the homosexual population naturally moves towards heterosexuality over time (without any therapeutic interventions), and further and faster with counselling and support The same-sex-attracted are not 10% of the population but (including bisexuals) much closer to 2.5%. The West has lost its way on this issue, and today we are seeing the outcome. The mental health professions In the West now, mental health professionals in many jurisdictions are unable to offer “reparative therapy” for people with unwanted same-sex attraction. They are often under policy constraints to counsel clients towards acceptance of their sexuality.

Whitehead, Neil; Whitehead, Briar. My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Science (pp. 4-5). Whitehead Associates. Kindle Edition.

Clarice Lispector in her last published text during her life, The Hour of the Star (1977)

"I am absolutely tired of literature ... If I still write it's because I have nothing better to do in the world while I wait for death ... My small success invades me and exposes me to glances on the street. I want to stagger through the mud, my need for abjection I can hardly control, the need for the orgy and the worst absolute delight. Sin attracts me ... I want to be a pig"