Some men are gay because they fail to make a crucial break with the ‘boys together’ stage of childhood, according to a new book.

Anthropologist Desmond Morris argues that the sexes draw apart from the age of five to their early teens when they go through an “intensive educational period.” Boys and girls tend to only have close relationships with those of their own gender.

When they become teenagers they are flooded with hormones and become interested in the opposite sex. But, Morris says, homosexual boys get stuck in the stand-off phase and cannot make the switch.

“They cannot understand why young boys, who were playing sex games with them only a few months before, are now only interested in chasing girls,” he said.

In his study, The Naked Man: A study of the Male Body, Morris suggests gay men may have had unpleasant experiences with girls or become fixated with other boys as sexual companions in the stand-off phase.

“It takes a massive jolt from the sex hormones at puberty to break down the boy-to-boy loyalties, and if there are any special social factors adding their weight at this point, the break can be thwarted,” he said. (…)

Source: Daily Mail, UK
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