Is homosexuality a learned behavior or are we predetermined before we are born?

Answer 1

You will get many different answers on this one. Some people will say that you can't help being what or who you are that it wasn't a choice and they were born homosexual. A lot of religious groups will tell you that it is completely a choice and that it is a sin. Who really knows? Personally I think its a choice.

Answer 2

It's not a learned behavior and it's not predetermined before a person is born. It's a choice an individual makes based on a series of events and experiences a person has in life. I think the statistic is quite high on the number of homosexuals who were brought into the lifestyle because at a younger age - they were introduced to it by being touched by someone who is homosexual or that they were abused by someone of the same sex while they were young. Even people who go through abuse as a child tend to end up in abusive relationships as adults because it feels comfortable to them. But that doesn't make the decision a good or right one. I've heard the statistic is as high as 85% and probably higher. Anyone could participate in the homosexual lifestyle if they choose it. To say it's predetermined is like saying - okay I was predetermined to be a burger flipper for McDonald's so that's where I work because it's always been my passion. No a job is a choice just like any lifestyle a person selects is their choice. I know that the homosexual movement doesn't want anyone to believe or think the way I do because if they can prove it's genetic then they can say that anyone who doesn't agree with them is a bigot or homophobe - which I am not by the way.

Answer 3

First understand homosexualality is constructed, just like hetrosexuality is constructed.
The Formula For Constructing A Homosexual
This formula can be illustrated in this way: A Predisposition
Toward Homosexuality Plus That First Homosexual Experience
Multiplied By Pleasurable and Positive Homosexual Thoughts
To Which Is Added More Homosexual Experiences Multiplied By More Pleasurable Thoughts Constructs A Homosexual.

The Formula For constructing A Hetrosexual
This formula can be illustrated in this way: A Predisposition
Toward hetrosexuality Plus That First Hetrosexual Experience
Multiplied By Pleasurable and Positive Hetrosexual Thoughts
To Which Is Added More Hetrosexual Experiences Multiplied By
More Pleasurable Thoughts Constructs A Hetrosexual.

Answer 4

ok this is a hard one being trying 2 figure this out myself. I think its a bit of both, different 4 each person. What if they like both? Are attracted 2 both? But finds the same sex more attractive. And feels bad about these feelings and wants them to go away, then what? I would say its predetermined. Then on the other hand they had abuse 2. So then it could be learned. Strictly a sex thing though. Attraction. Let me know when the results are in

Answer 5

I think that people are born gay, straight, whatever. It is predetermined just as my being heterosexual is predetermined. It is not a choice and it is not something that is just decided. However I do think there is a small population of people who are more in to expirimental sex and they choose to do and try different things. Then there's us straight people which I think is just as confusing because I can never understand the men I date. Homosexuality is not a sickness that needs to be cured, it is a part of a person. There are many parts to each of us, our sexual identity is just one slice of the pie.

Answer 6

Just wanted to point something out. Count how many people substitute "choose" as the ONLY OTHER possibility if it's not predetermined. Suppose it was something that develops, from somewhere, for whatever reason. That doesn't make it a choice. And not all things done can be un-done (You can't untoast bread).


I think it might be a bit of both. And I think there's an equifinality to it in that different people might come to identify as gay or lesbian for different reasons; I don't claim that my experience is the ONLY way to be gay, or the ONLY valid way to be gay.

Answer 7

The homophobes need to back off. People that are truly homosexual are born that way; it is not a learned behavior. To all of the hateful people out there I ask this: If homosexuality was a behavior that was easily learned, then do you feel that you could learn to do it and truly feel content too? I am not homosexual, and I couldn't see myself learning to become gay. The idea is unfathomable to me. The idea of homosexuality being learned makes no sense. And to all of the Christians out there that choose to use your religion as an excuse to bash homosexuality, remember that God wasn't hateful and didn't want his children to be either. (and I'm not saying all Christians do this BTW)

Answer 8

It is NOT learned, okay? I wish I'd made a hard copy of the thingee I recently got from a CREDIBLE web site about some research that is clearly indicating the predisposition is there from the start. It is physiological. Now, people like Falwell-oh his sanctimonious face gives me the creeps! when he says that god still loves them, even though they're sinners, & they can be HELPED with guidance & prayer. This is nonsense. I don't see homosexuals trying to convert heterosexuals. They couldn't if they wanted to. But they leave us alone as we should "them." When "most" people think about homosexuals, all they think about is sex, not the normal every day lives we all have. Not even of love, just "abominable sex." I think we know where THAT comes from. & sorry, sweetie, whoever you were, I have a MASTERS in psychology if that means anything to anyone. All it means to me, is that I have a great deal of experience, & I am well informed enough to know it cannot be learned.

Answer 9

Judging by my own life, I have always had an attraction to other men (boys) as long as I can remember. I like women too but there is still the look of another guy's body that keeps me wanting to touch him. I say predetermined.

Answer 10

It's predetermined.

Considering I grew up in the land of the straight, I don't know who could be blamed for "teaching" me.

Ever notice that the only ones who say it's predetermined are straight folks -- yet they can never explain how or when they determined they were going to be straight, how many same-sex relationships they had prior to the big decision to be straight, or any of that.

Answer 11

I think its pretty much predetermined. That answer is how I feel about it and it is not backed by any scientific or spiritual evidence to the contrary. Evidence like that is not 100% reliably anyway in my opinion. The gender we are attracted to is a feeling inside. So how can that be wrong. I don't think its something taught or chosen. I hope my answer was ok. Like I said its how I feel about it when I think about this myself.