We all have come across those guys that act...well.. feminine, and at often times we wonder if they are gay. I recently made a new friend a month back and I sometimes wonder is he is gay, not that i am stereotyping him, but they are certain characteristics that make me doubt his sexual orientation.
For example, he usually gets excited the way we girls would, you know that high pitched' "Oh my God, ahhhh" phrase and his hand gestures are way to feminine. I was even to confused that i got the courage to ask him, he totally denied it and i felt to awful to have assumed such thing. But after reading the assigned modules, a light bulbed just clicked and understood why, he was so in touch with his feminine side.
According to the book, "drugs that tend to femi- nize or demasculinize early development include alcohol, marijuana, haloperidol (an antipsychotic drug), phthalates (chemicals common in many manufactured products), and cocaine.
Still with this, i didn't really comprehend why he might act a certain way because it stated early development not adolescence. It wasn't until months later where he later confessed that his mother had been using cocaine and alcohol while she was pregnant! But then i was puzzled again, i know, geez. get to the point. My friend was a hard cocaine and mariguana addict since he was 13, we all know that puberty is one of the main phases of or life that is happening, thus causing hormones like testosterone to do what...well you know what its meant to do, masculinize the male. A part of me also thinks, that because of this he might of not obtain the full effect of testosterone in his development
I tired finding a video that would explain the phenomenon but there is very little research. instead this video targets the affects of drugs on a baby. We are the voice of the next generation that can't speak for themselves. I never told my friend he was just too "feminine" but its amazing to see how the affects of him also being dependent are seen.
Before this week, I had no idea that was an effect from using drugs. I associated drug use with birth defects and somehow this doesn't seem like a birth defect but in reality it is. They are perfectly formed but this goes beyond physical appearance.
ReplyDeleteWOW! I read this post a couple of times and repeated the video several times as well. Since I started taking classes for my Psychology Major I have always heard about the effects of drugs on males, females, and babies. Every time I learn something new I want to know more and more because this is a very sad topic but a very interesting one as well. This video was excellent because it explains how drugs affect the baby very well. First of all, I cannot believe that an expectant mother would do drugs to risk her life but most importantly an unborn life. Of course, this goes back to the whole concept about addicts, but that is a whole different topic. Now, demasculinize huh? I actually had no idea that not only can they baby be born with defects due to the drug consumption or be born with the addiction, but it can also be feminized or demascunilized. Once again, wow! It is so surprising that males can act less masculine due to the effects of drugs and some might not even know the effects the drugs have on them because it appears as 'normal' to them since they have always been exposed to the drug. I think I have been in a similar situation like you and your confused idea about your friend, but like you, I feel that I cannot be judgmental. Now, with this post I am left wondering how many more other effects drugs have on early development aside from the ones we already know.
ReplyDeleteI have met a couple of guys like that as well where i'm even a little hesitant to even ask. I have heard about this concept before of how some drugs can cause some unusual effects to our sexuality i guess you say. Alot of the main effects occurs during a person's prenatal sensitive period. Since the amount of testosterone is the main hormone that determines whether that person will grow to be more feminine or masculine. The video was very good in explaining how drugs can effect your child's life and its good in that it can educate others more about.
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