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Revealing Same-Sex Attraction’s Evolutionary Role |
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 Sexuality researcher Paul Vasey interviews the fa'afafine on Samoa to attempt to understand same-sex attraction's evolutionary role.
He is one of the luckiest sexuality researchers working today.
Not only has he secured funding for basic sexuality research - a low priority for most research institutions - but he also gets to do his work on the tropical islands of Samoa.
"Samoa has become a second home to me," said Vasey, who teaches at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Since 2003, he has spent up to a third of every year on the remote archipelago in the central South Pacific. It's there he hopes to understand the evolutionary basis for what would appear to be a genetic dead end - same-sex attraction.
With little acknowledged evidence for the existence of homosexuality in nature, and no sound theories to explain its evolutionary purpose, much of society and science have long viewed same-sex attraction as abnormal and deviant. Only since 1973 has the American Psychological Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
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