Is homosexuality a result of enviorment and circumstance?

Question

-Throughout history, societies that glorified the human body and sex were more proned to homosexuality. For instance Greece, Babylon, and Rome, as history shows, glorified the human body and sex. However, nations that considered sex sacred were less prone to homosexuality. Such as Judaic and Muslim nations.

-Nations where the, now shown, scientific differences between men and women were repressed were also more prone to homosexuality. Rome, for instance, became very effeminate during her "golden" years, and was very prone to homosexuality. However, Native American cultures glorified and acknowledge the masculine and feminine are were far less prone to homosexuality.

-Enviorments were sexes are deprived of one another are also more prone to homosexuality. Such as jails where men do not encounter women for decades. Or domesticated animals, especially males, which are neudered and deprived of mating for a considerable time.

Is homosexuality a result of enviorment and circumstance?

kreevich, I am the 2nd youngest of 5 boys. Neither I nor my younger brother are homosexual. Thus, disproving that thoery.

Answer 1

No it is a life choice, your environment doesn't make you homosexual and your not homosexual by circumstance. You either choose to be or not to be.

Answer 2

Many societies saw homosexuality as a natural condition, and accepted it. The worth of the person was valued (except if you were a slave, but that's a different matter).

Those that repressed it did not stop homosexuality, just drove it into hiding. It doesn't mean that there were less homosexuals in Muslim culture, just not as pronounced.

At any given time, about 10% of the population is homosexual (even the Kinsey Report agreed with this).

I don't see homosexuality as a trend or the latest fad, but something that is in your from birth. Science has not been able to determine why some people become gay and others not, but do not confuse homosexual love as opposed to being the dominant alpha male.

What goes on in prison has nothing to do with sex but with power and dominance and what better way to express that than by anal rape?

Answer 3

Prenatal environment and circumstance. It has recently been discovered, through repeated DNA testing on prison inmates, that some people have two different types of DNA in their bodies.

Occasionally, multiple births occur. In some circumstances, the bodies do not properly separate, or, in the case of fraternal twins, one body may begin to absorb the other.

Depending on how far they develop, or on how much one absorbs the other, a person can be born who has, say, the left side that originally belonged to one embryo and the right side that originally belonged to the other embryo. So if a DNA sample is taken from the right side, it will not match a DNA sample taken from the left side.

Now, what happens in the case where the sexual organs are of one gender and the brain is of the other gender...?

It would require DNA testing to be sure, but this will probably account for the few, rare, true homosexuals (as opposed to those who have become convinced that they were homosexual after trying it to see if they liked it, or those who became accustomed to homosexual practices after having such forced upon them, or those who choose it for the political power that it gives them in our society.)

Future medical advances will result in the ability to prevent such embryos fusing together, and there will no longer be any remaining traces of a homosexual 'community' other than whatever antiquated laws may remain which were passed in their favor. We need to take the long view, in cases such as this.

Answer 4

Thansk for not including the option of "inborn". Any shepherd or farmer can tell you than a certain percentage of the herd is naturally gay. I just read of some research that says that in families with a lot of boys, the younger ones have a greater chance of being gay. They think it's because the female body starts treating the developing male fetus as some sort of contamination, and tries to counteract it. I think in many cases lesbians are born when they gestate in an abnormally testosterone environment. Some girls grow up looking hard, and with an unusual interest in tinkering with cars, when this was not at all taught to them.

Answer 5

Homosexuality is not a word. The lower parts are the bodys' sewage system.

Men and women are made to fullfill a function that gives them pleasure in the act.

Not so with this.

It is an acquired perversity that can be cast aside. Unlearned, if you will. Like degenerate gamblers. Wife abusers. Drug addicts. Thieves.

Politicians and clandestine operatives, I'm not too sure about, though.

Answer 6

Neither. It is a choice of the soul via their personal blueprint before birth. No happenstance. No accidents. The DNA is programmed long before anyone had a discussion about it. This is a soul journey for the EXPERIENCE. It would probably shock the average mind that many of us, maybe all of us have desired or have experienced this in a lifetime. And it is a choice. Never to be condemned or judged.

Answer 7

Homosexuality was created by god to test people.

Bigotry shows the ultimate lack of humanity and a total failure to follow the very simple guideline "love one another". It is therefore fitting that this bigotry tears the church apart because it demosntrates the pure evil at the church's heart. All bigots will, of course, spend eternity in hell - presumably criticising each other and blaming god.

It exposes the utter worthlessness of christianity and many other religions as faith systems because it shows them to be morally incapable of even handedness and equality.

Answer 8

I think it is genetic disposition strongly influenced by environment. I think cultural norms may contribute to our behaviors (all). I think repression breeds rebellion. I think individual traumatic experiences influences our eventual life direction.

I bet if an accurate sample survey of the homosexual community was ever possible, you would find some genetically pre-disposed, some who went along with the others around them, some who suffered traumatic abuse, and some who rebelled at severe repression (te preacher's kid syndrome).

Answer 9

I think it's more genetics. I think you may be reading too much into it than what it is. I also know most have come out of the closet so to speak more within the most recent years and it was hidden a long time ago so others did not know.

Answer 10

As has been noted, even the most prominent scientists and social scientists who study sexuality have no complete understanding of the causes of any sexuality.

I would like to start with your inaccurate description of Native American cultures, being Native American myself.

Many -- and probably most -- Native nations regarded homosexuals as a "third gender" commonly called "two spirts" -- or two types of gender existing in one body. They were called through spiritual means to this life and were often healers or medicine persons, gravediggers, undertakers, made responsible for handling and burying of the deceased, conducted mourning rites, conveyers of oral traditions and songs, nurses during war expeditions, foretold the future, conferred lucky names on children or adults, wove, made pottery, made beadwork and quillwork, arranged marriages, made feather regalia for dances, special skills in games of chance, led scalp-dances, and fulfilled special functions in connection with the setting up of the central post for the Sun Dance. In some nations, female-bodied two-spirits typically took on roles such as chief, council, trader, hunter, trapper, fisher, warfare, raider, guides, peace missions, vision quests, prophets, and medicine persons.

The above list comes from Wikipedia and is borne out by my own research. There is more information and the names many nations gave these people at the link below.

You have not defined what you mean by "prone to homosexuality," which is vague to the point of meaninglessness. It also makes it difficult to answer your question completely, but I will do what I can.

There is no evidence to suggest that homosexuality has ever been more prominent in any society or culture throughout ancient or contemporary history. Some, however, have been more accepting of it as part of the variety of humanity. Certainly the Greeks and Romans (who borrowed their culture almost wholesale from the Greeks) acknowledged that homosexuals exist.

However, many neolithic cultures also "glorified the human body," notably the female body, but there is no indication that homosexuality was any more prominent then. Even to this day, more female nudes than male are created in art and sculpture, largely because more artists are heterosexual males. Do they glorify sex in the same way? Many of Picasso's works (and many works of modern art) are also strongly heterosexual, with disguised phalluses and vaginal symbols.

As far as Judaic and Muslim nations, they have their gay groups, but because societal pressure is more repressive, they are usually further under the cultural radar. They continue to meet, to love, and to matter, despite not being given wide press coverage. But that is changing... for instance, "Yossi and Jagger" a film about gay Israeli soldiers, or the coverage on the death of of Ahmed Khalil, a 14 year old Iraqi who was rousted and killed by Iraqi police for being gay.

2nd point:
Where were differences between men and women "repressed" in Rome? And how is effeminacy linked to homosexuality? Effiminacy itself is a loaded term, exposing misogyny (hatred or dislike of women) -- for what is "wrong" about it is that men and women can act any way, there is no inherent masculine or feminine behavior, it is all socialized.

3rd:
Yes... false social constructs of single-gender institutions do bring same sex acts to more prominence, such as seminary, the military, boarding school. But that is physical, not the emotional and attraction level of homosexuality. It is not defined soleley by its third syllable.

So, some homosexual contact in the result of circumstance, but the rest is junk social science.

Answer 11

I've always wondered why we all assume that it's wrong. Who's to say they aren't the ones doing it right? Doesn't it make more sense? Who knows a woman better than another woman, same for men. Besides, I don't care who does who as long as I don't have to watch. LOL.