lotsa things figure into the calculus but i keep hitting this mother-daughter thing. what are the top three influes, lets say? anybody of knowledge or experience have an ingtelligent observation they care to share?
2006-12-20 09:45:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I have also seen this theory on television shows where they have doctors (psychologists) making the claim about the failure of the mother/daughter relationship in a high number of lesbians.
I quickly searched the web just now, because many of the answers before me claimed that they never heard of it, and asked you to quote your sources. The first source I found was www.wellesley.edu/JBMTI/pdf/Previews/wp56preview.pdf
I am not saying I believe it or not, but I know two lesbians, and I know the mother/daughter relationship of one of them. It has always been a failed relationship.
Personally, I think that, although it may play a part in becoming a lesbian, there are other stronger forces (nature itself, life experiences, etc.) that may also have a guiding hand in ones sexual development.
2006-12-20 10:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Nota LGBT 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Are you straight? Who's fault is it? Your mother's or father's fault? Were you abused? Maybe it it something someone did to you when you were young? You can't have been BORN that way....hmmmmm....Something musta gone wrong somewhere....
All that aside...sexuality is inherent to all of us....It is very well documented that there are same sex relationships in the wild amoung the animal kingdom...it is not merely a human trait...it is universal.... Also gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same....the may overlap for some but it is a rainbow of expression with more than a two dimensional or dualistic equation.
2006-12-20 18:15:18 · answer #2 · answered by City 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally? I believe it to be both nature and nurture. I think that there are people who have the potential to be gay or bisexual, but they were never given the right stimulus to express it in their developmental stages.
Psychology is a hard thing to pin down. It changes from person to person. I don't think there's any ONE influence, much less THREE, that makes a person queer or straight. It just depends on the person. And if there are any common threads, it's more than likely coincidence.
2006-12-20 17:49:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I question the validity of any such paper that claims to state any purely psychological cause of homosexuality.
Considering the APA's stance on the subject, I'd say the entire line of "reasoning" was rubbish.
2006-12-20 17:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um....no. You are very vague with your info but i dont think i agree. My mother is 100% heterosexual but is very tolerable to all people. She's been with my father for 39 yrs and they're very much happily in love. Her and i are close and i would do anything for her. So how is she tied to my being a lesbian?
2006-12-20 18:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by Raynebow_Diva 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard of that. Why don't you state your sources?
2006-12-20 17:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋