Oshun and gays

I found this article about a study done by the University of Padua, Italy, that found a link between gay men and the fertility of women in certain families, that is, the mothers and maternal aunts of gay men are likely to have more children than in the general population. The study capitalized on a previous study that showed that gay men tended to have more maternal uncles who were also gay.

The funny thing is the article appears in an anti-gay website that claims to 'uphold the right' to 'treat' people with unwanted homosexual inclinations. Since 1975 the APA removed homosexuality from its list of illnesses. In that sense, it is not 'treatable' because it's not a disease, it's a sexuality.

The study seems to indicate that homosexuality in men may be in part related to women's fertility and women's hormones. I think going forward the harder part will be to ask the RIGHT questions, and non-biased ones, maybe not so much what causes homosexuality but what evolutionary pressures may have led to the existence of homosexuality. The closest species to humans, bonobo chimps, are all bisexual and have more gay sex than straight, so this is probably much deeper than we even imagine and we can speak of a diminished homosexual trend in humanity versus our cousins!

But the point that I wanted to present is that women's fertility is the realm of Oshun (or Venus, the Goddess of Love in any of her names), as we all know, and we also know that Oshun loves her gay children. And so the cool thing about the study is that it legitimizes what millions of souls have intuited for millenia in all cultures: there is a very real, tangible, even ORGANIC relation between gays and the Goddess of fertility (Cybele in antiquity had gay priests, so did Inanna, so did Freya in Scandinavia, so does the Goddess have hijra followers in India, so does Erzulie in Haiti, the list goes on and on) ... in other words, science is apparently catching up with shamanism!

One of the definitions that Carl Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, gave to the archetypes of the collective unconscious, was 'inherited instinct'. It's interesting to note that the modern survivals of 'gay cults to fertility Goddesses' that still exist (Erzulie, Oshun) take place in religions of ancestral worship, especially considering the fact that gay people usually don't have children of our own. It's as if we're all today tapping into the same ancestral collective unconscious that gave birth to all those ancient cults.