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gay from birth
Friday, 8 August 2008 19:00So, just finished watching The Making of Me that featured John Barrowman and how he came to be gay - nature versus nurture and if he was born like that. It was incredibly fascinating - much better than I expected. There's apparently a group at Northwestern that measures brain response to erotica in order to determine sexuality and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bad_influence and i were talking about how we'd really like to undergo that. I mean, I can say whatever I want and believe whatever I want, but because of the epilepsy and concussions, I'd be really interested to do more neurological research, especially in regards to sexuality. And see whether or not it conforms to what I believe or not.
The one thing that I noticed was that all the scientific stuff was either gay or straight - there wasn't really much room / space given to bisexuality or transgendered. I know it's much easier to think about stuff in a gay versus straight mindset, but I think binaries in general usually lead to failure. Or at least to things revealing themselves to be much more complicated and messy than intended. Things don't usually fit in neat boxes.
Amusingly enough, I think I want to burn it to dvd and play it for my parents - even if that means having to have some conversations I'm not sure I'm ready to have. They know I'm bi, but sexuality is just one of those things we don't talk about. 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. Bedroom preferences should stay in the bedroom. But it's been on my mind since reading Barrowman's autobiography and well, I'm a curious child who doesn't want to hide things. Maybe that's why I tend to overcompensate with openness to an extreme and lack of TMI/Modesty filters in other areas of my life. Who knows?
I think that it's really one of those 'anything is possible' situations.
bad_influence and i were talking about how we'd really like to undergo that. I mean, I can say whatever I want and believe whatever I want, but because of the epilepsy and concussions, I'd be really interested to do more neurological research, especially in regards to sexuality. And see whether or not it conforms to what I believe or not. The one thing that I noticed was that all the scientific stuff was either gay or straight - there wasn't really much room / space given to bisexuality or transgendered. I know it's much easier to think about stuff in a gay versus straight mindset, but I think binaries in general usually lead to failure. Or at least to things revealing themselves to be much more complicated and messy than intended. Things don't usually fit in neat boxes.
Amusingly enough, I think I want to burn it to dvd and play it for my parents - even if that means having to have some conversations I'm not sure I'm ready to have. They know I'm bi, but sexuality is just one of those things we don't talk about. 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. Bedroom preferences should stay in the bedroom. But it's been on my mind since reading Barrowman's autobiography and well, I'm a curious child who doesn't want to hide things. Maybe that's why I tend to overcompensate with openness to an extreme and lack of TMI/Modesty filters in other areas of my life. Who knows?
I think that it's really one of those 'anything is possible' situations.
