Is homosexuality due to a biological predisposition or an environmental influence?

Answer 1

It's a little bit of both, doctor. First of all, society(eastern and western, that is) is a far cry from accepting people for who they are in it's uttmost form-and of course, to imagine this utopia where each individual component was unafraid of their own voice, that practiced their own beliefs and minded their own business, well-maybe one day, haha, but not quite yet.

None of us can be so arrogant to opinionate so globally, when you are not only reaching for religon and science to finally shake hands properly-you are dealing with Free Will.

Take me, for instance. I apparently have some sort of endocrine imbalance going on, and I've been knowing it for quite some time. I can't currently afford the stresses of researching it, but I can express to you that on a personal level---there is a drive within me that is considerablely more masculine than would ever be said about the archetypal female.

For the past 6 years, I've dated a male. Before that, I primarily dated women. In my world, the cost of social exile was a small price to possibly pay in exchange for the comfortable, natural setting that I experience with women.

I do believe that not only are there biological predispostions that clue in to one's desire to penetrate or be penetrated(this is a very loose example to explain a reactive or proactive mentality), but on top of that-there is the social elements that come in to play. It comes in the form of a bet, a bet every gay person makes. Is the pay off worth it? In some environments, the choice makes it easy. For others, not so much.

As a non-medical point of view, my biological theories are simply a work in progress--I simply am not educated enough in this field to feel confident that I won't sound foolish, but--

I am quite sure that just as everything seems much more black and white to a child or a simple person, gender will soon be identified as a linear line of various grays. Large clitoris, small penis--what is the real difference here, other than the symbols we place upon them? Perhaps only in a utopia could we finally understand that the true complexity of nature really is only as complicated as we make it.

Answer 2

It has to be purely a biological condition and it is still unnatural to be homo's. Most of the time the male is attracted only to the female and that is the law of nature. Ideally the environment should affect a grown up man the least, and affect a child or an adolesenct more. If you already had a girl friend or a wife in your life plus if you have children, there can be neither be biological or environmental influences.

Answer 3

That's a rhetorical question. It's just like asking
"Does chocolate taste good because of biological predisposition or an environmenta influence?"
Does that keep you from eating chocolate?
If they kept chocolate from you, would you want it more?

I think it is pretty much a combination of the two, but it goes beyond just those two factors. I mean, it would be like asking
"Is being black due to biological predisposition or an environmental influence?"

It just makes life interesting, so we are always different.

Answer 4

You are a Dr. so you know better. frist go to past,, in roman history you will find homosexuality. now also you will find.

Secondaly sex is nothing but an entertement through which man or women releses there energy and feel fresh. this filling of freshness is making them to do all this
. When they do not get any safe(which we called) way they get started todo all.....this. I think you have heard about some news that man had sexual contacts with animals??. what do you think for this?????
So as per my exp.. homosexuality is not predisposition or it is not an environmental influences.

Answer 5

Scientifically speaking, there is no concrete evidence that homosexuality is caused by either of these factors. Research is still continuing though, and perhaps science will come up with an answer soon.

However, I think that it is most likely caused by a mixture of both. I think that certain people are born with the potential to be homosexual, and that environmental influences sway the person one way or another (or staying in the middle as a bisexual) over time.

Answer 6

I am not gay but all the gay friends I have, both male and female, have told me they knew they were different by the time they were 4 or 5 years old, leading toward the biological predisposition. I remember well one episode of Law and Order (My favorite show) were Elliot says to his coworkers something to the affect that why would anyone choose to be gay if they indeed had a choice? Most gays are estranged from their family and friends, are not accepted everywhere and have all the laws of most States and the Federal government against them. I agree.

Answer 7

I opt for personal choice just so that personal responsibility is left in the field of moral judgment.

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Paul labels "biological predisposition" as "the sin which doeth so easily beset us". We are always to fight this tendency that is not in compliance to the way God made things. God made humans male and female.

If you don't like God in the picture then Evolution allowed male and female in a lot of species also.

Answer 8

Influence? Yeah right thats why all the strait couples end up with gay children. Then you are saying that being strait is influenced.

Cant have one and not the other. Something tells me that if I started telling my boys that it is okay to like other guys they would look at me a little odd.

Desire of the opposite sex is the way we are all built. Face it, thats the way it is suppose to be for life to go on.

Not saying being gay is bad just that there is something wrong (out of the norm) biologically. I would never blame the person. Its not a choice like taking a gun and shooting someone is.

Answer 9

in my opinion there is nothing like homosexuality .it arose only because of increasing sexual needs.some people supporting homosexuality debates it as a biological predisposition by proving there point by saying that "in whales and in many other animals it exists" but we are not animals .in animals even a mamal concieves the children from its own male son. but in humans it can never happen .its just an outcome of the lust of the elite class n to jystify it they hv covered it with the sham of biological diversity

Answer 10

Homosexuality is due to a *perversion* in one's sexuality|

There can be three possible causes of that|


(1) Abnormal genetics|

(2) Some environmental influence in the formative years that damaged them|

(3) Personal choice|


St. Paul seems to be talking about (3) in Romans:

"... these men who have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator - blessed be he forever amen! God therefore delivered them up to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and the men gave up natural intercourse with women, and burned with lust for one another. Men did shameful things with men, and thus received in their own person the penalty for their perversity. (Rom 1:25-28)."


We can see from this passage that the people there had a normal orientation by their initial sexual practices, but turned to unnatural sex by their *own* choice, because of the perversity of their stance towards things|




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