Yeah, when I said genetic I meant it's something having to do with a chromosome in their brain which makes it impossible for them to decide if they are or aren't homosexual.
Chosen or Genetic? your missing a very important vote option my friend. Just because it is not based upon genetics does not mean its a matter of personal choice. I do not believe that being a homo is either a choice or a genetic trait, but rather a matter of environmental influences. They are numerous things that can affect an individuals sexual preference and while not all homosexuals exhibit these traits there are certain things that make a person more likely to have trouble finding positive, meaningful relationships with the opposite sex, ie: maternal or paternal negligence, maternal or parental dominance (authoritarian influence) in the home, relationship between parents (abuse, separation, or divorce), relationships with adults as a child (molestation, abuse), or things like marching band, theatre club, or the high school wrestling team.
I stress that none of these above things I have listed definately makes someone gay. I know plenty of people that have had divorced or separated parents, or experienced abuse and they, for the most part, are no different from anyone other heterosexual. However the above list will affect a persons emotional development, including relations with members of both sexes and things like physical attraction.
While I know that some of those in the above list are stereotypes (i hope you can realize on your own that i am only joking about a few of them), there is still some half truth to some of those statements. While I am not argueing that those things will definately make you gay, I instead suggest that they are factors which affect individual character development, including such things as sexual preference.
This is written from the perspective of a heterosexual male, so if you disagree with me feel free to attack me on the grounds that I don't really know what makes a person gay. But I don't think gay people really know either. Some gay people perfer to say things like "I was born this way," but there is no isolated gay gene: By attributing homosexuality to their individual human nature is a cop out answer, because the idea of human nature is related to something genetic that makes us a certain way. It is much easier to believe that the relationships and situations encountered as a developing child has a larger impact upon forming relationships and creating a sexual identity than some certain genetic quality..... If it were a genetic trait the trait would die out in a few generations because if you have a genetic trait that makes you gay, there is no passing it along to your offspring, duh.... It may just be easier to attribute it to some broad, meaningless term than to question the possiblity that the was they are today is the result of somethigns that happened to them while being raised. I know that the gay community takes alot of crap already, if you add in personal crisis of identity you get a recipe for a kind of mental breakdown. The idea that someone chooses to be gay seems riddiculous to me too. I mean, they do dress snazzy, and have a superiour sense of style, and drive expensive european cars, but it still doesn't make sense to a purely hetero male. While I am niether gay, nor do i really know a lot of gay people personally, I have taken a couple of human psychology classes that examine the process of human character development. And based upon what I learned in class as well as what I've heard on talk shows like Love-Line I have come up with this explanation.
Are there any gay people out there who can confirm or deny? I feel strongly about what I wrote, but I would like to hear from someone who swings that way if I am mostly correct or mostly incorrect.
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Oct 6th, 2004 04:25 AM
Ytaker agreed with me once on October 9th, 2004
