American television is getting its stick out the mud and widening the gap of conventional, heterosexual, reality television dating and is now moving on up.
I don’t know about you, but when it comes to gay relationships: “hypothalamus” tends to come to mind. The hypothalamus controls 8 major hormones by the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland is our sexual center.
Considering that, I often wonder about the fidelity struggle in gay relationships because of it.
Whether gay or straight, given that men have a 2.2 times larger hypothalamus gland than women, monogamy for any man has to be a conscious effort at every turn. Additionally, the hypothalamus contains 2 times more cells so the effort in and of itself to be monogamous has to be a lifestyle-regardless your lifestyle!
I’ve always entertained the notion that gay dating is probably less exclusive and monogamous pretty much no different than the struggle for a straight man to be-yet twice as hard. Other studies however, argued that the hypothalamus is larger in hetero men than gay men. I personally don’t believe that and simply believe what I believe since last studied and checked some 10 or so years ago: gay or straight, a man’s enlarged hypothalamus is a man’s hypothalamus is a man’s hypothalamus. Period! I think over the years, any risky sexual behavior and promiscuity is easy to point the finger on gay men as being the reasons for the AIDS epidemic in the community. So I believe to save social face, over the more recent years, it’s a safer argument to pin it all on the heterosexual male’s hypothalamus and say: “Oh a gay male’s hypothalamus is not quite as enlarged.” Whateverrrrrr.
Either way, although you won’t be seeing any action like the first thought that comes to mind across many a homophobe’s first thoughts when it comes to gay relationship:
When you're homie has a pikachu on his back #PokemonGo pic.twitter.com/5Gt8mB6HBc
— B (@blahnco) July 13, 2016
…the chance to see just how gay men relate socially and emotionally is about to rear its necessary head.
Along with the LGBT hot button issue and race relations being on the table with a necessary world cultural diversity lesson needing mapped onto America’s agenda, although that remains essential, until then, the world will get their diversity lesson in seeing how gay men love and lose just like straight men.
As inclusion and acceptance of all human beings remains on the rise, many would say that it’s about time a dating reality show depicted the realities of what gay relationships and dating is actually like.
It’s like I say about the scene in our heads whenever our significant other has cheated: The knock-down, drag out bedroom sha-bang and goings on are typically much greater than what actually happened (or is happening).
https://twitter.com/SaidSherice/status/748659454837592064
I firmly believe that whether it be cheating or anything else in life that evokes fear and angst: if you kill the secrecy, those walls come tumbling down. If nothing else, hopefully that becomes of this show-regardless our choice to agree or disagree with gay lifestyles.
Either way, Logo television’s going to do just that.
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