2006-09-25 22:21:50 · 21 answers · asked by Fat Tongued One 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
No. If there was then the gay gene would eventually die out because gay people cannot pass on thier gene through copulation.
2006-09-25 22:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by mick241602 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you have a gay gene, you most certainly were born with it.
Most serious scientific research into this question indicates that homosexuality indeed has a genetic cause. The most likely location of a gene is on the 23rd, or sex chromosome.
Other research has indicated that homosexuality may be caused by hormonal factors in the womb. To oversimplify, the mother has an "allergic reaction" to the foetus, which results in a different brain development. Whether this phenomenon is a result of genetics or not (or even whether it does in fact exist) is still up for debate.
To say that a gay gene is "impossible" simply betrays the answerer's ignorance. Many genes can have results that aren't directly beneficial to the organism.
For example, the gene which causes sickle cell anemia when it occurs twice provides an immunity to malaria if it occurs only once.
A "gay" gene may reduce a male carrier's likelihood of producing offspring, but increase a female carrier's.
On a sociological level, a gay gene could have been beneficial in prehistoric tribal cultures, providing extra male tribe members in a time when mortality rates were very high. If the "gay" male tribe members were looking out for their siblings' children, those children (who shared somewhere between a quarter and a half of their own genes) would have had a better chance of survival.
2006-09-25 22:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems unlikely that a single gene would exist. The genetic basis of behaviour is a contravertial concept that is as of yet poorly understood. Current thinking suggests that 'genetic' behaviour is more likely the result of a complex interaction of many genes rather than directly governed by a single gene.
This then means that although sexuality may be genetically determined it is unlikely to be a black and white affair, but more likely to result in a spectrum of sexualities which we then try to place into 3 distinct catagories.
2006-09-25 22:37:32 · answer #3 · answered by tysonian22 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so, in fact havent they proven that being gay runs in familys?
And in case you say - well, if thats the case how come more gay people are being born - its like any regressive gene - it comes out in some people (Excuse the pun) but may lay dormant in others, so that person may go on to have a child and pass on that gene, thats how it appears to me anyway
Also, a lot of gay people have children, just because people are gay doesn't stop them wanting to be parents does it?
I think you also have to consider that nature verses nurture argument - are we who we are purely because of our genes and biological makeup - or because of the way we are bought up? I know a lot of people who simply cannot tell their familys they are gay, and who agonised about coming out because of the way they were brought up.
2006-09-28 00:38:45 · answer #4 · answered by a random night 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Single genes do not directly determine attributes in grown humans - it is the interplay between sets of genes and the environment that determine who we are. In this sense, there is not even a single gene for eye colour - there is more than one influence on something as simple as this. So something as complex as sexuality certainly does not have one gene as its determining cause.
2006-09-25 22:42:20 · answer #5 · answered by jamiego 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are born with genes, they don't just appear. No one can say for sure because even though there are theories, nothing has been proved as to whether homosexuality is due to genetics
2006-09-25 22:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by mother knowledge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is a gay gene in every human being it is just submissive in some and active in others
2006-09-25 22:28:42 · answer #7 · answered by shb t 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no not that they have found yet but there is a strong suspicion that it could be genetic to some degree. In some families it may be one of the youngest of brothers that is gay and there is no answer to this yet as far as I know.If you think you are gay, call a gay help line in your area, check the phone book.If you are gay it is not a bad thing anyway as my brother was gay and he enjoyed life until he died of a heart attack at 48.
2006-09-25 22:28:52 · answer #8 · answered by v3ry_funny 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They haven't found one yet, but yes, gay people are usually born that way.
Being gay is the same as being left-handed: 10% of the population is predisposed to be gay, 10% of the population is predisposed to be left-handed. You can force yourself to be otherwise, but in the long run its not healthy.
2006-09-25 22:32:20 · answer #9 · answered by Roadpizza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. By the way Sleepwalker, you are well named.
However, cat scans have noticed distinct differences between male and female brains, People who are gay have female traits in their brains.
Could be an incomplete hormone dump, during formation in the womb, or something.
2006-09-25 22:41:10 · answer #10 · answered by Alice S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋